Acting head takes post at Japan's Chongqing mission after long vacancy

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- A Japanese acting consul general has assumed his post in Chongqing, a Japanese government source said Wednesday, about eight months

China has approved a new Japanese acting consul general in Chongqing, ending an eight-month vacancy at the mission following a bilateral freeze. Shigehiro Nishiumi, who previously served as Japan’s deputy consul general in Hong Kong, assumed the post at Japan’s diplomatic mission in the southwestern municipality of Cho