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Takeaki Matsumoto

State Secretary for Foreign Affairs

In his 27 January address at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Takeaki Matsumoto outlined three pillars of Japan’s African diplomacy: peace and stability; expanding assistance and trade; and addressing global issues. Though the economy argues against him, he assured the audience that Japan intends to double aid to Africa by 2012 (AAC Vol 4 No 3). One of the issues that concerns Japan is climate change; another is piracy in the Gulf of Aden, which hits its fishing fleet....

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