By ANTARA News
Tokyo : The Japanese government on Wednesday announced it has named one of its senior diplomats, Kojiro Shiojiri (59), as its new ambassador to Indonesia.
Shiojiri will take over the post of outgoing Shin Ebihara who will assume his new post as Japanese ambassador to Britain.
“Shiojiro is one of Japan`s experienced diplomats. He will soon take up his post in Jakarta as Japan`s new ambassador,” Japan`s Foreign Ministry`s Press Secretary Tomohiko taniguchi said here on Wednesday.
Taniguchi made the remarks in connection with the assignment of Shiojiri as new ambassador to Indonesia after he completed his tenure as deputy ambassador to the United States.
Shiojiri was born in Kyoto in 1949 and graduated from Keio University, one of Japan`s leading private universities in 1972.
He began his diplomatic career with a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972 and was thereafter given several overseas assignments such as in the Japanese representative office in the European Commission in Brussels, Consulate General in New York and Japanese Embassy in Seoul.
Shiojiri was later promoted as the chief of the Reform Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before he assumed one of the important positions in the United States, namely as Japanese deputy ambassador in 2003.