Former Japan Envoy to U.S. Dies in Tokyo
From Times Wire Services
TOKYO —
Fumihiko Togo, Japan’s ambassador to the United States from 1975 to 1980, died of cancer in Tokyo on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said. He was 69.
Togo became an adviser to the foreign minister after serving as Japanese envoy to Washington. Earlier he was director general of the ministry’s North American Affairs Bureau in 1967, ambassador to Vietnam in 1970 and deputy foreign minister in 1972.
He was vice foreign minister before being assigned to Washington.
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