Appointment of Koichi Mizushima as New Japanese Ambassador to Korea

The Japanese government decided at a cabinet meeting to appoint Koichi Mizushima, the current ambassador to Israel, as the ambassador to South Korea, Kyodo News reported on the 9th.

In January this year, the Japanese government designated Ambassador Mizushima as the successor to Koichi Aiboshi, the ambassador to South Korea, and requested agrement (host country’s consent for dispatching diplomatic envoys) from the South Korean government.

Newly Appointed Japanese Ambassador to Korea, Koichi Mizushima [Image Source=Yonhap News]

Ambassador Mizushima was born in 1961 in Kyoto and graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1985 and has served as counselor at the Embassy in the United States and as director of the North American Affairs Division 2. He also served as minister at the Embassy in South Korea and as director of the Consular Affairs Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has been ambassador to Israel since 2021.

Kyodo News explained at the time of Mizushima’s designation in January, "The Japanese government seems to have judged that Mizushima, who has experience in South Korean diplomacy, is the right person because there is a possibility of instability in Japan-South Korea relations depending on the results of the South Korean general election."

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