Japan`s new envoy to China dead

DHAKA: Japan’s ambassador-designate to China, Shinichi Nishimiya, died on Sunday in a Tokyo hospital.

The Foreign Ministry said, three days after he was found unconscious on a Tokyo street, reports The Jerusalem Post.

Doctors were looking into the cause of death, ministry official Takashi Ariyoshi said in a statement, but no other details were available.

Nishimiya, 60, was found unconscious on a street near his home on his way to work.

Nishimiya was to have left in mid-October to take over from Uichiro Niwa as Japan’s top envoy in Beijing.

BDST: 1402 HRS, SEP 16, 2012

Edited by Robab Rosan, Cultural Affairs Editor