IchirÅ Fujisaki
Ichirō Fujisaki (藤 﨑 一郎jap, Fujisaki Ichirō; * 1947 ) is a Japanese diplomat and since June 2008, his country's ambassador in the United States.
Fujisaki visited the United States for the first time as a student in the early 1960s. His father, Masato Fujisaki was living at that time from 1960 to 1962, the Japanese Consul General in Seattle and the family in the district of Magnolia. In the early 1970s he studied for a year at Brown University and the Stanford University Graduate School. From 1987 to 1988, Fujisaki research associate of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1991 to 1995 he was a lecturer of International Relations at Sophia University in Tokyo.
During his diplomatic career, which he began in 1969, Fujisaki in Jakarta, worked in Paris at the OECD, as well as in London. From 1995 to 1999 he worked at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
Prior to his appointment to the Japanese ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2008 he was deputy representative of Japan, with the rank of Ambassador in Geneva at the United Nations and the World Trade Organization ( WTO). During his stay in Geneva, he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the addition of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR ).
Within the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo held Fujisaki, among others, the post of Deputy Director-General of the Asia division and the Director General of the North America division. In connection, he was appointed the Foreign Ministry to shingikan ( position among the Secretaries of State ). During several G8 meeting he accompanied the Prime Minister of Japan as a personal adviser. He is fluent in English and French.
Fujisaki is married and has two daughters who work in Japan as journalists. He is a cousin of the Japanese politician Takeaki Matsumoto.