The is a diplomatic facility of Japan. It is located in Suite 900 of

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. Its jurisdiction includes the U.S. states of Tennessee,

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, and

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The consulate was originally the . It first opened in 1922.

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, located at the mouth of the

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, served as a hub for grain shipments originating from the

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and the cotton trade. Kimberly Quillen of ''

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'' said that this fact made a New Orleans location "an obvious choice for a home."Quillen, Kimberly.
Japan will close New Orleans consulate
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''. November 30, 2007. Accessed June 21, 2008. Prior to the move to Tennessee, it was located in the

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in the

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. Yutaka Horiba, an economics professor at

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, said that while the State of Louisiana had focused on establishing relationships with the oil and gas industry, the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had made attempts to establish relations with Japan for a period of several decades before 2007; Horiba believed that this weakened the relationship between Louisiana and the Government of Japan. In 2006 Dominique Thormann, a senior vice president with

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, told journalists in Washington DC that the Japanese government planned to move the consulate to Nashville. Koichi Funayama, who was serving as the consul-general in New Orleans, said that according to a 2005 survey, the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had over 200 Japanese companies."Another hit for Nashville: Japan's consulate." ''

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''. December 11, 2006. Volume 81, Issue 6233. p. 42. Available at

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, Document ID 219505818. The headquarters of Nissan North America Inc. is in Greater Nashville, and the Nashville location is in proximity to

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, which has a manufacturing plant of Toyota Motor Corp. The Japanese government prepared the move of the consulate for over one year. During that time lawmakers from Louisiana unsuccessfully asked the Japanese government to keep the consulate in New Orleans. The Japanese government had plans to assign an

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to New Orleans. For the first nine months of 2007, Japan took over $2 billion worth of Louisiana-origin goods, making it the state's second largest export market. Zeh-Noh Grain Corp., a U.S. subsidiary of

Zen-Noh The , in short , is a federation of agricultural cooperatives in Japan. ZEN-NOH was formed in 1972 with the joining of the ZENHANREN group (National Marketing Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations) and the ZENKOREN group (National Pu ...

, operates one of the largest grain elevators in Louisiana. As of 2007 many Japanese tourists visit Louisiana for the music.

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Consulate-General of Japan, Nashville

Consulate-General of Japan at New Orleans
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Japan–United States relations 1922 establishments in Louisiana 2007 establishments in Tennessee Buildings and structures in Davidson County, Tennessee Asian-American culture in Tennessee

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