Ambassador Tomita to Japan Changes … Ambassador Aiboshi’s Influential Successor



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Japanese Kyodo news agency Aiboshi Koichi, who is nominated to succeed Japan's ambassador to Korea, reported on the 7th that the Japanese government is considering resigning Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama and appointing Ambassador Tomita to the Republic of Korea as his successor.  Ambassador Tomita's successor is said to have been Israeli Ambassador Aiboshi Koichi (61).  2020.12.7
Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on the 7th that the Japanese government is considering resigning Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama and appointing Ambassador Tomita to the Republic of Korea as his successor. It is said that the successor of Ambassador Tomita was the Ambassador of Israel Aiboshi Koichi (61). 2020.12.7
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(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Se-jin = Japanese Ambassador Koji Tomita, known as ‘American Tong’ to Japan, is known to move as ambassador to the United States in line with the inauguration of the Jo Biden regime.

Ambassador Tomita’s successor is said to have been the main Israeli ambassador to Israel, Koichi Aiboshi (相 星 孝 一 · 61).

Born in Kagoshima Prefecture and graduated from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Tokyo in 1983, Ambassador Aiboshi has served in Korea as Secretary No. 1 of the Japanese Embassy in Korea (1999), Counselor (2000) and Corporation (2006).

After serving as consular director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2017, he has been ambassador to Israel since July 2018.

The Kyodo news agency reported on the 7th that the Japanese government is considering resigning Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama and appointing Ambassador Tomita to the Republic of Korea as his successor.

Kyodo said Sugiyama, who took office in January 2018 through the deputy minister of the Foreign Ministry, has worked to strengthen relations with the Donald Trump regime. It was analyzed that seemed to be judged.

During the Barack Obama regime, Ambassador Tomita served as head of the United States Corporation and the North American Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Suga’s Japanese government seems to hope that his career will be a link through which he can use the personal connections of Biden-elect, who will take office in January next year.

The Kyodo news agency said that once the personnel plan is finalized, Ambassador Tomita, who arrived in October last year, will unusually move from Korea to the US ambassador.

Ambassador Tomita from Hyogo Prefecture passed the Foreign Affairs Officer Exam in October 1980 while attending the University of Tokyo School of Law.

After serving in Korea and the United States as a counselor to the North American Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2009, he has served as the United States Corporation, the Director of the North American Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ambassador of Israel in Israel.

Prior to his appointment as ambassador to Korea, he served as special ambassador and plenipotentiary in charge of the tasks of the main summit of the 20 countries (G20) held in Osaka last June.

As an ambassador to Korea, you are hearing comments in Japan that you have devoted your efforts to improving the relationship between Korea and Japan, which has worsened due to demand from recruitment victims.

Ambassador Tomita is also the son-in-law of Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), a famous far-right writer in Japan.

Mishima, who was mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in his lifetime, went to the Ichigaya Garrison of the Tokyo Ground Self-Defense Force (now the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense) in November 1970 with four members of the ‘Tatenokai militia. ‘which means’ a shield that protects the Japanese king’ He committed suicide after meddling and giving a speech asking for a hit.

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