Yoshiji Nogami
Born (1942-06-19) 19 June 1942
Tokyo, Japan
EducationUniversity of Tokyo (B.L.A. in 1966)
OccupationDiplomat

Yoshiji Nogami (野上 義二, Nogami Yoshiji, born 19 June 1942) is a Japanese diplomat.

He joined the Japanese ministry of Foreign Affairs during the late 1960s. On January 30, 2002 he was dismissed from his position as Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs following disagreement with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka over the participation of two NGOs in the conference regarding the reconstruction of Afghanistan, then held in Tokyo.

From 2002 to 2004, he served as Minister at the Japanese Embassy in the United Kingdom, and from 2004 to 2008 as Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom. In March 2019, Nogami, spoke at the Tokyo forum on the question of whether Japan is sufficiently invested in South-east Asia. He said Japan's foreign direct investment in the region is already overtaking what it spends in China.[1][2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Tommy Koh urges Japan to be top Asean investor again". The Straits Times. 20 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Japan asked to return to Southeast Asia as top investor | #AsiaNewsNetwork". Retrieved 22 October 2022.
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