Credentials presented
From Bruce Roscoe in Tokyo After a brisk. 10-minute ride in a 90-year-old carriage drawn by two horses from the Palace Hotel in central Tokyo to the Imperial Palace yesterday morning, the newly appointed New Zealand “ Ambassador to Japan,
Mr Graeme Ansell, presented his credentials to Emperor Hirohito, the longest-reigning monarch on Japan’s Chrysanthemum Throne. The credentials are two letters personally signed by the Queen and addressed to the emperor, aged 81. One asks the emperor to receive
the New Zealand Ambassador, the other constitutes notice of the recall of the former ambassador, Mr R. M. Miller. Six New Zealand Embassy officials followed in two carriages. Mr Seiichi Nakamura, the chief of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency, sat with the Ambassador in the first carriage. The emperor, attired in morning suit, was introduced to the six embassy staff, who went forward, bowed, shook hands, bowed again, and retired in a rehearsed ceremony. Mr Mutsuki Kato. Minister of Lands and chairman of the Japan-New Zealand Parliamentarians' League, represented the Japanese Government for the occasion in place of the Foreign Minister, Mr Shintaro Abe, who is in Washington. Mr Ansell, aged 51. said that the emperor “made it very clear he attached great importance to relations with New Zealand and was looking to me to do what I could to consolidate the relationship built up by my predecessors.”
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