APAN AND CANADA
MR. TOKUGAWA CHOSEN AS MINISTER
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. D a.m. TOKYO, Tuesday. It is officially announced tliat Mr. Iyemasa Tokugawa, formerly Japanese Consul-General in Australia and New Zealand, has been appointed Japanese Minister to Canada.
Mr. Tokugawa is quite well-known to New Zealanders, for he has twice visited this country. He is a mail of charming personality. Comparatively young, he is in the early forties. He is the son and heir of, Prince Tokugawa, who is President of the House of Peers, president of the Japanese branch of the Pan-Pacific Union, and one of the most distinguished men in Japan. Mr. Tokugawa has had a wide diplomatic career. He has twice been resident at the Japanese Embassy in London as an attache, and later as counsellor, while for six months during the absence of the Ambassador he was Charge d’Affaires. He has also been First Secretary to the-Jap-anese Legation in China, and private secretary to Viscount Kato, when the latter was Prime Minister and when he was Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 651, 1 May 1929, Page 9
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179APAN AND CANADA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 651, 1 May 1929, Page 9
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