News Analysis
Chinese ambassador to Japan, Kong Xuanyou resigned on Feb. 28 from his post and returned home to China. A 2019 analysis in Nikkei suggests that Kong’s departure was due to his failure to achieve the objective given to him by Beijing to restore and improve China-Japan relations.
Kong, 63, was born to an ethnic Korean family in China’s northernmost province of Heilongjiang. He graduated from Shanghai International Studies University, where he majored in Japanese. He spent 15 years working at various diplomatic posts in Japan and can speak fluently in Japanese on any topic on television or radio and engage in vigorous repartee with the Japanese press….