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The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo remained closed during the Allied occupation, as the U.S. was the occupying power in Japan. On April 18, 1946, SCAP General Order 18 established the Diplomatic Section as the primary diplomatic representation of the United States during this period, which was staffed by some State Department employees. [10]
Conducting press briefings for domestic and foreign press corps; Pursuing media outreach, enabling Americans everywhere to hear directly from key Department officials through local, regional and national media interviews; Managing the State Department's websites [3] and developing web pages with up-to-date information about U.S. foreign policy;
Japan Press Center Building, Chiyoda, Tokyo. ... This was established as a national press centre, in place of Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, in November 1969. [1]
The daily press briefing typically includes a summary of the secretary of state's schedule, any upcoming trips by the secretary, the president of the United States, or other distinguished State Department officials including under secretaries and assistant secretaries, and official reactions and positions of the U.S. government on certain news ...
The Global Engagement Center (GEC) was an agency within the Bureau of Global Public Affairs at the United States Department of State.Established in 2016, its mission was to lead U.S. government efforts to "recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the ...
James J. Shinn seated to the right of Robert Gates. Shinn began government service as an economic analyst in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 1977, serving under Assistant Secretary Richard Holbrooke, working primarily on U.S.-Japan economic relations, including industrial structure policy, and the Tokyo Round of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (MTN).
Club membership is around 1,450, with over 240 foreign correspondents (and their Japanese counterparts) as well as over 160 professional associates, mostly working for local media. Associate members number around 1,050 and include entrepreneurs, business executives, other professionals as well as authors and artists.
From 2005 to 2007, he directed the State Department's foreign press center; from 2007 to 2008, he served in Erbil as the senior representative in Kurdistan; and from 2011 to 2014, he was the deputy chief of mission at the United States' embassy in Ankara.