Chikahito Harada Explained

is a Japanese diplomat and former Ambassador to the Russian Federation.

In 1999-2001 served as Press Secretary in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2001-2002 served as representative of Japan to the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission.^[1] Served also as Charge d'Affaire at the Japanese Embassy in China^[2] and director of the Russia Division at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Harada was the ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2008 to 2010.^[3] From 2010 to 2015, he served as the ambassador to the Russian Federation.^[4]

Works

• Russia and North-East Asia, Adelphy Papers no. 310, 1997

See also

• List of ambassadors of Japan to Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic

External links

• Transcript of Harada's first press conference, 1999

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of representatives to the NPAFC . 2010-05-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721064100/http://www.npafc.org/new/about/NPAFC_past_representatives.pdf . 2011-07-21 . dead .
2. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200403/26/eng20040326_138564.shtml "China protests Japan's detention of citizens" Xinhua, March 26, 2004
3. http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/23-12-2010/116331-japan_russia-0/ "Japanese ambassador to spy on Dmitry Medvedev?"
4. Web site: Japan appoints new ambassador to Russia. TASS. 2016-03-25.