TOKYO (PTI): Japan May 7 named career diplomat Chusei Yamada as its new ambassador to India.

Yamada will succeed currently serving ambassador Shunji Kobayashi, according to a Japanese foreign office announcement Friday.

Yamada, 62, had served in New Delhi earlier in his career, He also was ambassador to Egypt and head of Japan’s diplomatic mission in Hong Kong.

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