Morihisa Aoki

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Morihisa Aoki
青木 盛久
Aoki in 2017
Japanese ambassador to Peru
In office
1994–1997
MonarchAkihito
Prime MinisterRyutaro Hashimoto
Preceded byMasaki Seo
Succeeded byKonishi Yoshizo
Personal details
Born (1938-11-23) November 23, 1938 (age 85)
Nasushiobara, Japan
OccupationDiplomat

Morihisa Aoki (Japanese: 青木 盛久, romanized: Aoki Morihisa, born November 23, 1938) is a former Japanese diplomat and president of the Aoki Shūzō Memorial Scholarship Foundation.

He was the ambassador to Peru and homeowner of the diplomatic residence that served as the location of the Japanese embassy hostage crisis.[1]

Biography

Early life

Aoki was born in

Meiji period
.

After that, he moved to Kanagawa Prefecture, where he attended Eiko Gakuen Junior and Senior High School before graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law in 1963. In 1962, while still enrolled at the same school, he passed the advanced civil service examination, and entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1963 after graduation.

Diplomatic career

After entering the ministry, he studied French at the

University of Dijon, and in 1965 became the third secretary of the Embassy of Japan in France,[2] later working in the Japanese embassies in Vietnam and the United States. In 1984, he became the Consul General of Japan in Hong Kong and in the same year, he became a minister of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations. In 1987, he was a minister to the Philippines and Consul General of Manila. In 1990 he served as secretary-general and as a director of the Japan International Cooperation Agency.[2] In 1994 he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Peru
.

Japanese embassy hostage crisis

Main article: Japanese embassy hostage crisis

In November 1996, he was involved in the occupation of the Japanese ambassador's residence in Peru by the

terrorist group
in Peru. Initially, he asked the perpetrators to release all the other hostages with only him remaining, but his request was refused by the militants.

On April 22, 1997, the president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, who had previously organised the construction of a tunnel to the ambassador's residence, ordered the execution of Operation Chavín de Huántar: the military operation in which a team of 142 commandos rushed the residence. Two members of the Special Forces and a hostage, a Peruvian Supreme Court judge, were killed during the attack.[3] Aoki suffered serious injuries to his chest and legs during the rescue, but was rescued along with the hostage embassy staff, Peruvian government officials, and representatives of Japanese companies.

Public opinion of Aoki in Japan was mixed, leading to his resignation after the hostage crisis.[4]

Later career

In 1998, Aoki was appointed as the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Kenya. A month after his appointment, he witnessed the bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In August 2001, he received a severe reprimand on the grounds of improper receipt of various allowances by a staff member of the Embassy of Japan in Kenya.[5] He became a pending ambassador, and later retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After retiring from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served as the executive director and vice chairman of the Japan Cooperation Volunteers Association. On May 23, 2005, he was interviewed by Ungirls and co-starred in Nippon Television's "Shinken". Currently, he is the president of Shuzo Aoki Memorial Scholarship Foundation and the director of Ashigin International Foundation.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Las explosivas revelaciones del embajador japonés". El País. 1994-08-04.
  2. ^ a b 「全国官公界名鑑」1991年 同盟通信社
  3. La Republica (in Spanish). Archived from the original
    on September 26, 2013.
  4. ^ "Morihisa Aoki: Tras rescate de rehenes, "prácticamente" me despidieron en Japón". La República. 2011-12-12.
  5. ^ "官房長会見記録（平成13年8月）". 日本国外務省. Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
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