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Tanaka caves in on Yanai firing
Yomiuri
Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka finally gave up her resistance to replacing Shunji Yanai, Japanese ambassador to the United States, Thursday night, according to ministry sources.
Tanaka met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda at the prime minister's official residence to make a report on personnel affairs at the ministry, the sources said.
Tanaka is believed to have proposed to Fukuda that Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ryozo Kato be appointed to the post of administrative vice minister; Ambassador to …