Itochu adviser Niwa to become Japan's new envoy to China

TOKYO, Japan - Uichiro Niwa (file photo), adviser to major trading house Itochu Corp., will be appointed as Japan's new ambassador to China, possibly later this month, government sources said on June 7, 2010. Niwa will be the first ambassador appointed to one of Japan's key partners not drawn from the ranks of former bureaucrats.

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