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

The consulate was originally the . It first opened in 1922.
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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.
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Prior to the move to Tennessee, it was located 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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, 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
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, operates one of the largest grain elevators in Louisiana. As of 2007 many Japanese tourists visit Louisiana for the music.


See also

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Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School (1989–2007) was a Japanese education system boarding high school located in Sweetwater, Tennessee. The school, a part of Meiji Gakuin ( 学校法人明治学院) and affiliated with the Japanese Presbyterian institution Meiji Gakuin Universi ...
(a Japanese international senior high school in Tennessee) *
Consulate-General of Japan, Atlanta The is a diplomatic mission of Japan. It is located in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The consulate's jurisdiction includes Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina.Consulate-General of Japan, Detroit The is a diplomatic mission of Japan. It is located in Suite 1600 Tower 400 of the GM Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. Its jurisdiction includes the states of Michigan and Ohio. The Japanese government proposed opening the con ...
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Consulate-General of Japan, Honolulu is Japan's diplomatic facility in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The facility is located at 1742 Nuuanu Avenue. The facility's jurisdiction includes Hawaii and American Samoa. As of January 2024 the Consul General is ...
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Consulate-General of Japan, Houston The is Japan's diplomatic facility in Houston, Texas, United States. It is located in Suite 3000 at 2 Houston Center, which is located at 900 Fannin Street in Downtown Houston. The consulate serves Texas and Oklahoma. , the consul general is ...
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Diplomatic missions of Japan This is a list of diplomatic missions of Japan. Japan sent ambassadors to the Tang Chinese court in Xi'an since 607 AD, as well as to the Koryo and Joseon dynasties of early Korea. For centuries, early modern Japan did not actively seek to expan ...


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