New Ambassador to Japan

On May 20, the Japanese news media reported that President Obama on Tuesday decide to nominate Mr. John Roos, a California-Silicon Valley based attorney as ambassador to Japan.

An end result was not Dr. Nye.

Who is Roos? Japanese government officials and American watchers thought.

The attorney is an active fund raiser in the presidential campaign for Mr. Obama. The President has also recently chosen Mr. Louis Susman who is another big fund raiser as the new ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Picking Mr. Roos, perhaps, is a plum as successive American Presidents have done as usual. With regard to that, it is difficult for me to see "change" in the American envoy.

But, there is a hope. Mr. Jim Zumwalt, the Charge d'Affaires of the US Embassy of Tokyo has started his blog since the middle of March. That is a part of "public diplomacy."

I enjoy reading it.

http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/zblog/e/zblog-emain.html

I would like the new ambassador to Japan start his blog and the Charge d'Affaires continue the blog after the arrival of the ambassador.


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