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Hiroshi Kitamura

Categories: Politics & Administration

Countries: Japan

Japanese ambassador to the UK in 1993. Before that ambassador to Canada. We thank Shelton Chen for permission to use his picture of Kitamura.

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Hiroshi Kitamura

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Japanese students at UCL

The monument is made of fine-grained gabbro, polished to a black, mirror-like...

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