Few people know more about the role of Japanese trading groups in deepening business ties with China than Uichiro Niwa, Japan's new ambassador to Beijing, report Mure Dickie and Jonathan Soble.
Mr Niwa is a former president and chairman of trading house Itochu and helped spearhead its Chinese expansion throughout the 1990s and early years of this century.
His appointment as the first non-career diplomat to head the Beijing embassy since Japan established diplomatic ties with communist China in 1972 is part of a drive by the ruling Democratic party to reduce the influence of Japan's elite bureaucrats.
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