On the 9th April 2015, at the Presidential Palace in Valletta, the Ambassador of Japan Kazuyoshi Umemoto presented his credentials to the President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.
During the ceremony, the President of Malta and the Ambassador discussed bilateral relations.
Ambassador Umemoto was born on April 27th, 1951 and in 1977 he graduated from the School of Science within the University of Tokyo. Shortly after his graduation, Ambassador Umemoto began his diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1994 he was made Director of the Japan – U.S. Treaty Division within the North American Affairs Bureau, a post which he occupied until 1997 when he was appointed Director of the First International Organizations Division of the Economic Affairs Bureau.
Shortly after, in 1999 he headed the Northeast Asia Division of the Asian Affairs Bureau, where he remained till 2001 when he was appointed Minister within the Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom.
Subsequently between the years 2004 and 2007 he occupied the post of Deputy Director General of the Middle-Easter and African Affairs Bureau, the North American Affairs Bureau and the Foreign Policy Bureau.
In 2011 he was made Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Switzerland before becoming Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary and Special Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in November and December 2012 respectively.
In January 2013 Kazuyoshi Umemoto was accredited as an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations.