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Kōichirō Asakai
Kōichirō Asakai ( ja, 朝海浩一郎; 1906–1995) was a Japanese politician who served as ambassador to the United States and ambassador to the Philippines Asakai studied banking and graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1929, before joining the Foreign Ministry. He was taught English by Edward Gauntlett, an English language teacher from Wales. From 1929 until 1931, he studied law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an attaché in the Japanese mission in London, and was posted to Nanjing before returning to the Foreign Ministry. He was bureau chief of the Central Liaison Office from March 1946. During this time, he attended meetings of the Allied Council for Japan as an "observer" and the sole diplomat. In August 1951, he was appointed the first head of the Japanese Government Overseas Agency in London. He was assisted in his work by the Japan Society of London, which had been set up two years prior. In 1956, Asakai was appointed the first post-war Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koichiro Asakai (01)
Kōichirō, Koichiro, Kouichirou or Kohichiroh is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible Writings *晃一郎, "clear, one, son" *光一郎, "light, one, son" *弘一郎, "vast, one, son" *鴻一郎, "prosperous, one, son" *紘一郎, "large, one, son" *浩一郎, "vigorous, one, son" *耕一郎, "till, one, son" *航一郎, "navigate, one, son" *倖一郎, "happiness, one, son" *孝一郎, "filial piety, one, son" *興一朗, "entertain, one, serene" *紘一朗, "large, one, serene" *こういちろう in hiragana *コウイチロウ in katakana People *, Japanese politician *, Japanese politician *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese politician *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese racewalker *, Japanese violinist and violist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese actor *, Japanese particle physicist * Koichiro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republika sang Filipinas * ibg, Republika nat Filipinas * ilo, Republika ti Filipinas * ivv, Republika nu Filipinas * pam, Republika ning Filipinas * krj, Republika kang Pilipinas * mdh, Republika nu Pilipinas * mrw, Republika a Pilipinas * pag, Republika na Filipinas * xsb, Republika nin Pilipinas * sgd, Republika nan Pilipinas * tgl, Republika ng Pilipinas * tsg, Republika sin Pilipinas * war, Republika han Pilipinas * yka, Republika si Pilipinas In the recognized optional languages of the Philippines: * es, República de las Filipinas * ar, جمهورية الفلبين, Jumhūriyyat al-Filibbīn is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Japan To The Philippines
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Japan To The United States
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d'aff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Deaths
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers; Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft for PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed by domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 O. J. Simpson murder case rect 200 0 400 200 Kobe earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Unabomber Manifesto rect 0 200 300 400 Oklahoma City bombing rect 300 200 600 400 Srebrenica massacre rect 0 400 200 600 Space Shuttle Atlant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Births
Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis. * January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany. * January 22 – The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster. * January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths. * February 7 – is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany. * February 11 ** Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer Nos'', denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. ** Two British members of a poll tax collecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masayuki Tani
(2 September 1889 – 16 October 1962) was a Japanese diplomat and politician who was briefly foreign minister of Japan from September 1942 to 21 April 1943 during World War II. Career Tani was a career diplomat before assuming ministerial roles. More specifically, he was Japanese ambassador to France (1918-1923), to the US (1927–1930) and to Manchukuo (1933–1936). In addition, he was chief of Asian Bureau in the ministry of foreign affairs. He also worked as counsellor to the Japanese embassy in Hsinking and as ambassador-at-large in China. He served as vice minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Mitsumasa Yonai when appointed under then foreign minister Kichisaburō Nomura on 24 September 1939. Then Tani served as information chief and also, foreign minister in the cabinet of Hideki Tōjō. He was appointed foreign minister on 17 September 1942. During his tenure, Japan continued to encourage a separate peace between Germany and the Soviet Union. Howe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsuji Debuchi
was a Japanese diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States. Diplomatic career Debuchi served as a diplomat in China, where he was head of the Japanese Foreign Office division which dealt with Chinese affairs. He later served as vice minister of foreign affairs for Japan. In 1928, Debuchi was appointed ambassador to the United States, succeeding Tsuneo Matsudaira. He was due to leave his position during 1931, but remained in the position following the Mukden Incident. As an ambassador, he was well liked in the United States. In November 1933, Debuchi left his position as ambassador to the United States, apparently due to his failure to convince them not to oppose Japanese actions in Manchukuo (Manchuria). However, he remained part of the Japanese diplomatic mission afterwards, visiting Australia in 1935 as a goodwill ambassador. Personal life He and his wife Hama Kikuchi had a son Masaru Debuchi and a daughter Takako Debuchi. His son studied at Princeton University. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūji Takeuchi
Ryūji (also spelled Ryuji or Ryuuji) is a common masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Ryūji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *竜二, "dragon, 2" *竜次, "dragon, next" *竜司, "dragon, rule" *竜児, "dragon, child" *竜治, "dragon, govern" *龍二, "dragon, 2" *龍次, "dragon, next" *龍司, "dragon, rule" *龍治, "dragon, govern" *龍児, "dragon, child" *隆二, "elevate, 2" *隆次, "elevate, next" *隆司, "elevate, rule" *隆児, "elevate, child" The name can also be written in hiragana りゅうじ or katakana リュウジ. Notable people with the name *Ryuji Aigase (相ヶ瀬 龍史, born 1987), Japanese actor * Ryuji Aminishiki (安美錦 竜児, born 1978), Japanese sumo wrestler * Ryuji Bando (播戸 竜二, born 1979), Japanese footballer * Ryuji Chiyotaikai (千代大海 龍二, born 1976), Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese baseball player *Ryuji Hara (原 隆二, born 1990), Japanese boxer *Ryuji Hijikata (土方 隆 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Society Of London
The Japan Society of the United Kingdom, founded in 1891, is an organisation that fosters British-Japanese relations. It is the oldest such organisation dedicated to inter-cultural understanding and positive relationships between a European Country and Japan. The society is also known as the ''Japan Society of London'', or simply as ''The Japan Society''. History The society grew out of a meeting of the International Congress of Orientalists, held in London on 9 September 1891, when a resolution was passed calling for the formation of a society "for the encouragement of Japanese studies and for the purpose of bringing together all those in the United Kingdom and throughout the world who are interested in Japanese matters". The society's founder, Arthur Diosy (1856-1923), was a debonair figure, who spoke fluent Japanese, and wrote several books including ''The New Far East. Membership The society reports that it has a membership in excess of 1,000 individual and corporate memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Ambassador To The United States
The ambassador of Japan to the United States has existed since 1860, interrupted by disagreements and wars during World War II. Koji Tomita is the current Japanese ambassador to the United States, having presented his credentials on March 28, 2018. Special Charge d'Affaires * Arinori Mori, 1870–1872 * Saburō Takagi, 1872–1873 * Jirō Yano, 1873–1874 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary * Kiyonari Yoshida, 1874–1882 * Munenori Terashima, 1882–1884 * Ryūichi Kuki, 1884–1888 * Viscount Munemitsu Mutsu, 1888–1890 * Gōzō Tateno, 1891–1894 * Shin'ichirō Kurino, 1894–1896 * Tōru Hoshi, 1896–1898 * Jutarō Komura, 1898–1900 * Baron Kogorō Takahira, 1900–1906 (1st time) Ambassador * Viscount Shūzō Aoki, 1906–1908 * Baron Kogorō Takahira, 1908–1909 (2nd time) * Viscount Kōsai Uchida, 1909–1911 * Viscount Sutemi Chinda, 1912–1916 * Aimaro Satō, 1916–1918 * Viscount Kikujirō Ishii, 1918–1919 * Baron Kijūrō Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupation Of Japan
Japan was occupied and administered by the victorious Allies of World War II from the 1945 surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of the war until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect in 1952. The occupation, led by the United States with support from the British Commonwealth and under the supervision of the Far Eastern Commission, involved a total of nearly 1 million Allied soldiers. The occupation was overseen by American General Douglas MacArthur, who was appointed Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers by US President Harry Truman; MacArthur was succeeded as supreme commander by General Matthew Ridgway in 1951. Unlike in the occupation of Germany, the Soviet Union had little to no influence over the occupation of Japan, declining to participate because it did not want to place Soviet troops under MacArthur's direct command. This foreign presence marks the only time in Japan's history that it has been occupied by a foreign power. However, unlike in Germany the Alli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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