Kenichiro sasae biography of christopher
East Asian and Pacific Affairs Remarks, Testimony, and Speeches.
Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the United States and Kenichiro Sasae, Deputy Director-General..
Challenged in recent years by territorial disputes with China and South Korea and the bellicose rhetoric of nuclear-armed North Korea, Japan late last year replaced its ambassadors to China, South Korea and the U.S.
with senior Foreign Ministry officials. Despite an anti-corruption rule adopted in barring high ministry bureaucrats from becoming ambassadors, the new ambassador to the U.S. is Kenichiro Sasae, most recently vice minister for foreign affairs, who succeeded Ichiro Fujisaki, who was Tokyo's man in Washington starting in June
Born circa , Sasae joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Career highlights from the first 25 years of his diplomatic career include service at the Japanese embassy in Washington, DC, at the embassy in London, U.K., and at Japan's Permanent Mission to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ascending to the top of the Foreign Ministry bureaucracy, Sasae served as deput