TOKYO, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government on Friday appointed Kojiro Shiraishi, chairman of media conglomerate Yomiuri Shimbun group, as its new ambassador to Switzerland.
The 72-year-old former political reporter rose through the newspaper's ranks to become group president in June 2011 and became group chairman in June 2016.
While in the role of chairman at the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association, Shiraishi was also a member of a government panel of experts tasked with reviewing proposals for Japan's new era name before Reiwa was chosen.
The position of Japanese ambassador to Switzerland has been vacant since April this year after the resignation of Etsuro Honda.
Meanwhile, the Japanese government also named ambassadors to Bangladesh, Belarus, Denmark, Kyrgyzstan, among others, and its mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
