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List Of Ambassadors Of Japan To Belgium
The List of Japanese ambassadors to Belgium started when Motono Ichirō presented his credentials to the Belgian government in 1898. List This is a chronological list of Japanese diplomats.''Nihon Gaikoshi Jiten'', appendix (1992). pp. 81-82, 134. See also * Belgium–Japan relations * Diplomatic rank References Further reading * ''Nihon Gaikoshi Jiten'', "Dictionary of Japanese Diplomatic History" (Tokyo: Okurasho Inseikyoku, 1979) * ''Nihon Gaikoshi Jiten'', "Dictionary of Japanese Diplomatic History" (Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1992) *List Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ... Japan {{Ambassadors of Japan ...
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Motono Ichirō
was a statesman and diplomat, active in Meiji period Japan. Biography Motono was born in Saga, Hizen Province, (modern-day Saga Prefecture). His father, an entrepreneur, was one of the founders of the modern Yomiuri Shimbun. Motono studied law in France, and in 1896 translated the civil code of the Japanese Empire into French He served as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Belgium in 1898–1901, and in that capacity represented the Empire of Japan at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference. In 1905 he served as a judge at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and formed a dissential opinion in the case of the Japanese Tax Hous He served as the Japanese Ambassador to the Empire of Russia from 1906 to 1916. On June 14, 1907, he was granted the title of baron (''danshaku'') under the ''kazoku'' peerage system for his services, and was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class. His title was elevated to that of viscount (''shishaku'') on July 14, 1916. Under the cabinet ...
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Hachirō Arita
was a Japanese politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs for three terms. He is believed to have originated the concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Biography Arita was born on the island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduation in 1909 from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University, and established himself as an expert on Asian affairs. Arita was on the Japanese delegation to the Versailles Peace Treaty Conference of 1919, and in his early career also was stationed at the Japanese consulates in Mukden and in Honolulu. He served as Japanese ambassador to Austria in 1930. He returned to Japan to briefly serve as Vice Foreign Minister in 1932, but returned to Europe in 1933 as Japanese ambassador to Belgium. Arita became Foreign Minister under the cabinet of Prime Minister Kōki Hirota in 1936, and continued to serve in that post under the administrations of Fumimaro Konoe P ...
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Ambassadors Of Japan To Belgium
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'affa ...
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Diplomatic Rank
Diplomatic rank is a system of professional and social rank used in the world of diplomacy and international relations. A diplomat's rank determines many ceremonial details, such as the order of precedence at official processions, table seatings at state dinners, the person to whom diplomatic credentials should be presented, and the title by which the diplomat should be addressed. International diplomacy Ranks The current system of diplomatic ranks was established by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961). There are three top ranks, two of which remain in use: * '' Ambassador''. An ambassador is a head of mission who is accredited to the receiving country's head of state. They head a diplomatic mission known as an embassy, headquartered in a chancery usually in the receiving state's capital. ** A papal nuncio is considered to have ambassadorial rank, and presides over a nunciature. ** Commonwealth countries send a high commissioner who presides over a ...
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Belgium–Japan Relations
Belgium–Japan relations are the bilateral relations between the nations of Belgium and Japan. Belgium has an embassy in Tokyo and five honorary consulates in Sapporo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Japan has an embassy in Brussels. First official relations (1866-1893) On 1 August 1866, Japan and Belgium signed the Japan-Belgium Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation. On the Belgian side, it was negotiated and signed by August t'Kint de Roodenbeek, the first Belgian diplomat to visit Japan after the country opened up in 1859. On the basis of this bilateral treaty, a Belgian vice consulate was established in Yokohama on 28 March 1867, headed by the Dutch businessman Maurice Lejeune. In the late 1860s, Belgium was represented by the Dutch minister-resident Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek, who was also able to negotiate bilateral trade treaties with Japan. T'Kint de Roodenbeek was succeeded by Emile Moulron in July 1872, who continued to act as vice consul in Yokohama till ...
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Morio Yukawa
was a Japanese economist and diplomat. Yukawa served in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs during World War II and took part in the Japanese official delegation that met US General Douglas MacArthur in Manila on August 19, 1945, in order to make arrangements for the Japanese surrender. During the 1950s, he served as head of Economic Affairs Bureau in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in that capacity tried to negotiate his country's accession to GATT. He represented Japan at the UNESCO General Session in 1953. Later, he served as Ambassador to the Philippines, and in that capacity concluded the Treaty of Amity of December 9, 1960. Afterwards he served as Head of Mission to the EEC in 1964–1968 and Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1968-1972. In 1972–1979, Yukawa served as Grand Master of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency The (IHA) is an agency of the government of Japan in charge of state matters concerning the Imperial Family, and also th ...
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Takeso Shimoda
was a Japanese diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States and a justice in the Supreme Court of Japan. Career Shimoda served as vice foreign minister (a bureaucratic appointment) within the Japanese Foreign Ministry. He was involved in the revision of the 1951 Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan. Shimoda served as ambassador to the United States from 28 June 1967 until September 1970. He was a signatory of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on 3 February 1970. From 12 January 1971 until 2 April 1977, he served as a justice in the Supreme Court of Japan. Baseball career He was commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball from March 1979 until 1985. His predecessor, Toshi Kaneko, resigned after a trade scandal. Personal life Shimoda had a wife, Mitsue, a son, and two daughters. Shimoda died from heart failure on 22 January 1995 in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label ...
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Saburō Kurusu
was a Japanese career diplomat. He is remembered now as an envoy who tried to negotiate peace and understanding with the United States while the Japanese government under Emperor Shōwa was secretly preparing the attack on Pearl Harbor. As Imperial Japan's ambassador to Germany from 1939 to November 1941, he signed the Tripartite Pact along with the foreign ministers of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on September 27, 1940. Biography Kurusu was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1886.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005) ''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 580./ref> He graduated from Tokyo Commercial College (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1909. The following year, he entered diplomatic service and, in 1914, first came to the United States as the Japanese Consul in Chicago. During his six-year service in Chicago, Kurusu married Alice Jay Little. He had three children, a son Ryō, and a daughter Jaye were both born in the United States; another daughter, Teruko Pia, was ...
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Naotake Satō
was a Japanese diplomat and politician. He was born in Osaka, graduated from the Tokyo Higher Commercial School (東京高等商業学校, ''Tōkyō Kōtō Shōgyō Gakkō'', now Hitotsubashi University) in 1904, attended the consul course of the same institute, and finished studying there in 1905. Biography He was born on October 30, 1882, in Osaka. He was an active politician and diplomat. In 1905, he passed the Foreign Service exam and started to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After serving as Mukden Consul General and executive secretary of the London Naval Treaty, he served as Imperial Japan's Ambassador to Belgium in 1930 and to France in 1933. He became Minister of Foreign Affairs (Senjūrō Hayashi Cabinet) in March 1937, and resigned in June 1937, then was assigned as Diplomatic Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under 1st Fumimaro Konoye Cabinet and Hideki Tojo Cabinet. He served from 1942 as the last Imperial Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. be ...
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Diplomat
A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations. The main functions of diplomats are: representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state; initiation and facilitation of strategic agreements; treaties and conventions; promotion of information; trade and commerce; technology; and friendly relations. Seasoned diplomats of international repute are used in international organizations (for example, the United Nations, the world's largest diplomatic forum) as well as multinational companies for their experience in management and negotiating skills. Diplomats are members of foreign services and diplomatic corps of various nations of the world. The sending state is required to get the consent of the receiving state for a person proposed to serv ...
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Ashida Hitoshi
was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1948. He was a prominent figure in the immediate postwar political landscape, but was forced to resign his leadership responsibilities after a corruption scandal (Shōwa Denkō Jiken) targeting two of his cabinet ministers. Early life Ashida was born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, the second son of politician and banker Shikanosuke Ashida. His father had been in the House of Representatives and served as director of Nōkō Bank. His grandfather was landed magnate and village headman (''nanushi'') Jizaemon Ashida. He studied French civil law at Tokyo Imperial University. After graduation, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for twenty years. Early career In 1932, Ashida ran his first successful campaign for a seat in the House of Representatives as a member of the Seiyūkai Party. He sided with Ichirō Hatoyama's "orthodox" wing following the Seiyukai's split in 1939. After the war, Ashida won a seat in t ...
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Matsuzo Nagai
was a Japanese diplomat and Olympic Games activist. Biography He was born on March 5, 1877, in Aichi Prefecture. He served in the Japanese delegation to the League of Nations in 1920, and served as Japanese Ambassador to Sweden and Finland in 1925–1930. In 1930, he formed part of the Japanese delegation to the London Naval Conference. He served as Ambassador to Germany from April 1933 to October 1934. In 1936, he served as Minister of Transportation, and was an active supporter of naval expansion plans. In 1937, he was active in the Japanese governmental committee which was charged with preparing the Olympic games scheduled to take place in Tokyo in 1940, which was eventually cancelled. He also served as a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1939–1950. He received the Grand Cross of the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star in 1928. He died on April 19, 1957. See also * List of Ambassadors of Japan to Finland * List of Japanese ministers, envoys and ambas ...
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