Japan’s First Minister to Australia
Received Thursday, 7.30 p.m. TOKIO, Jan. 1. The former Foreign Office spokesman (Mr. Natsuo Kawai) has been appointed Japan’s first Minister to Australia. He recently toured the world as Minister at large. He is expected to leave late in February, visiting Indo-China, Thailand and the East Indies en route. OPPORTUNITIES TOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING Received Friday, 12.45 a.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 2. The Minister of External Affairs (Sir Frederick Stewart) announced the appointment by the Japanese Government of Mr. Tatsuo Kawai as first Japanese Minister to Australia. Sir Frederick Stewart said the appointment following closely upon Sir John Latham’s appointment to Japan could not fail to add to the existing opportunities for mutual understanding. Mr. Kawai was born in 1889 and entered the Japanese foreign service in 1918, being appointed third secretary to the Japanese Embassy at Washington in 1921. He became Consul at Vancouver in 1925 and still later became Consul-General respectively at Canton and Shanghai.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 7
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