Prime Minister Taro Aso appointed her State Secretary for Foreign Affairs a vice-ministerial post under Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone in 2008...
He visited Rwanda in December 2008 to offer help in resolving the crisis in eastern Congo-Kinshasa and accompanied Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone to Botswana in March for a follow-up meeting after last May's Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 |
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Fukuda's comments were cautious but Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone and his deputy Nobuhide Minorikawa whom a Tokyo University politics professor dubbed the rising star in Japanese-African relations added substance to the Japanese delegation...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 11 |
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Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone is the son of former Premier Yasuhiro Nakasone who built strong relations with the United States after the WWII...