The government on Tuesday appointed Kenji Shimizu, a consul general in Kolkata, India, as ambassador to East Timor, and Kunio Shimizu, a former ambassador to Nicaragua, as Japan's top envoy in Algeria, the Foreign Ministry said.
The two men are not related.
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