Conferences
E.S. Kanji Tsushima: Japan seen by a Japanese man educated in Romania.
Sunday, March 13th, 11 a.m., at "The Black Box", NTB, His Excellency Kanji Tsushima will hold a conference on the theme Japan seen by a Japanese Man Educated in Romania.
His Excellency Kanji Tsushima, former Japanese Ambassador to Bucharest, has activated in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 43 years, 23 of which were spent with the diplomatic mission in Romania. Kanji Tsushima, who speaks Romanian very well, will divulge to us the way in which a diplomat who has spent most of his life abroad perceives his own country.
About E.S. Kanji Tsushima
Born in 1943 in Kyoto, Japan. In 1962 he becomes a student of the Faculty of Management of the Doshisha University in Kyoto.
In 1965 he takes his decree in diplomacy and is hired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In September the same year he is sent to Bucharest to learn Romanian, which he studies, for a year, at the Romanian Language Department for Foreign Students and then, for another two years at the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest. In July 1968 he completes his first diplomatic mission in Romania.
1968-1973: Desk Officer for the South-Eastern European countries, including Romania, within the East European Section of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1973-1978: The second diplomatic mission in Romania, period in which he witnesses the 1977 earthquake.
1978: Deputy Manager of the East European Section in Tokyo. In 1979 he accompanies the Crown Prince (current Emperor) on the occasion of His Highness' visit to Romania
1981- 1984: Consul at the Japanese Consulate in New York
1984- 1988: Political and cultural Secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Hungary
1988: The third diplomatic mission at the Japanese Embassy in Bucharest. The revolution from December 1989 caught him working.
1994: Chief of the Security Section of the Japanese Embassies around the world.
1997: Secretary-General at the Foreign Press Center in Tokyo
2001: General Consul of Japan in Porto Alegre, Brazil
2003: Japanese Ambassador to Mozambique
2006: Japanese Ambassador to Bucharest ( the fourth diplomatic mission in Romania)
2008: He retires from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Currently, he is a member of the International Committee of the Kendo Federation in Japan and manager of the Japanese-Romanian Association for Classical Music.
