官房副長官補に岡野氏　外務省総政局長は市川氏

　政府は２６日の閣議で、外交担当の滝崎成樹官房副長官補を退任させ、後任に外務省の岡野正敬総合外交政策局長を起用するなどの人事を決めた。岡野氏の後任には市川恵一北米局長を充てる。官房長には志水史雄中国特命全権公使、北米局長には河辺賢裕前米国公使がそれぞれ就く。
　南部アジア部長は有馬裕総合外交政策局審議官、アフリカ部長は斎田伸一米国公使を起用する。発令は９月１日付。（2022/08/26-16:06）

The Japanese government decided Friday to appoint Masataka Okano, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Bureau, to replace Shigeki Takizaki as assistant chief cabinet secretary in charge of diplomacy.
   Okano, 58, joined the Foreign Ministry in 1987 and served in such posts as director-general of the International Legal Affairs Bureau before assuming the current post in July 2021.
   Keiichi Ichikawa, 56, director-general of the ministry's North American Affairs Bureau, will succeed Okano as head of the policy bureau.
   The government also decided to appoint Yasuhiro Kobe, 54, minister at the Japanese embassy in the United States, as director-general of the North American Affairs Bureau, and Fumio Shimizu, 57, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to China, as deputy minister.
   The appointments will go into effect at the start of next month.