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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Next U.S. ambassador to Japan confirmed

Harvard University Professor and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph Nye has been confirmed as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, a senior Japanese government official has revealed.

Nye, 72, is known as an expert on Japan who has advocated strengthening the Japan-U.S. alliance, and his appointment to the post can be seen as a sign of the importance the administration of President Barack Obama assigns to Japan. Nye is expected to take up his ambassadorial duties sometime this summer. Read more....

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