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Minister Hiroyuki Kishino returns to London as the new Deputy Chief of Mission
12 Oct 04
Mr Hiroyuki Kishino |
In September 2004, Mr Hiroyuki Kishino arrived in London to assume his new post as Minister (Deputy Chief of Mission) at the Embassy. He has replaced Mr Seiji Kojima, Minister Plenipotentiary, who has returned to Tokyo after two and a half years.
Mr Kishino is delighted to be posted to the UK for a second time. From 1995-1997 he served as Counsellor and Head of Economic Section at the Embassy. Seven years later, on his return to London, he is impressed by the increasing wide-range of activities based on the charms of the city, which are effective in attracting tourists, students and businessmen and women, therefore boosting the economy. He recognises that Japan-UK relations have continued to grow from strength to strength and that the ties between the two governments have never been better. |
A graduate of Tokyo University, Mr Kishino entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in 1975. After completion of an MA in International Relations at Yale University in the US, he embarked on a distinguished diplomatic career, occupying a variety of posts in Tokyo and abroad.
At MOFA, he served as Director responsible for nuclear issues and intelligence. Overseas, he served in New York, Manila, Tehran and Ottawa. In his previous post before arriving in London this time, Mr Kishino was loaned to the Cabinet Secretariat as Deputy Director-General of the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSICE) to help establish Japan's imagery intelligence organ, which is now in operation.
Whilst on sabbatical as Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Global Peace (IIGP - now renamed IIPS), Mr Kishino worked with former Prime Minister Nakasone, Chairman of the Institute, as Foreign Policy Assistant. he also wrote numerous papers on Japan-US relations, East Asian security, the Gulf crisis and Japanese policy, etc.
During his tenure in London Mr Kishino is looking forward to working with UK counterparts not only at government level, but also at grassroots level. He hopes to deepen and broaden Japan-UK policy dialogue and co-ordination across a range of issues on a global scale. This will require untiring day-to-day efforts, which Mr Kishino believes to be a pleasure, as well as a duty.
A keen tennis player, Mr Kishino is married to Chikako Kishino and has two daughters.
Minister Kishino with HRH The Duke of York |
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