List of East Timorese ambassadors to Japan

Japan (green) and East Timor (orange)

The East Timorese Embassy in Japan is located at 8-9-1 Fujimi-Cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo , 102-0071, Japan. She was born on December 12th. Opened May 2006.

Historical background

Embassy of East Timor in Tokyo

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There were trade relations between Japan and Portuguese Timor as early as the colonial times . Japan was the third largest buyer of East Timorese coffee after the Dutch East Indies and Portugal . Corn, manganese ore, copra, rubber, cotton and wax were also exported to Japan. Trade with Japan was organized by the Sociedade Agrícola Pátria e Trabalho (SAPT), from which in 1940 the Japanese Nanyo Kohatsu KK bought 48% of the shares. The Nan'yō Kōhatsu was a company that should secure the economic and political interests of Japan in Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Japanese troops occupied the entire island of Timor from 1942 to 1945, even though Portugal was a neutral country during World War II . The result was a guerrilla war waged by Allied forces against the Japanese on the island, known as the Battle of Timor . Timorese also fought on both sides. In Portuguese Timor alone, between 40,000 and 70,000 people died. The population also suffered from various atrocities committed by the occupying forces.

After independence, Japan helped rebuild East Timor after the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999). Japan supported East Timor with 210 million US dollars between 1999 and 2007, among other things for the modernization of the ports of Dili and Pante Macassar and the construction of the country's first expressway.

After the Tōhoku earthquake in Japan in 2011, East Timor announced that it would send 100 helpers to Japan to clear the rubble.

See also : History of East Timor

list

Isílio Coelho (left) and Filomeno Aleixo (right) visiting a Timorese delegation in Tokyo in 2019. In the middle Foreign Minister Dionísio Babo

image	Surname	Appointment / accreditation	Leave post
	Domingos Sarmento Alves	19 September / 15. November 2006	April 2011
	Isílio Coelho	2011	2016
	Filomeno Aleixo	2015-2020	Inauguration: November 19, 2015 In Japan: April 6, 2016
	Ilídio Ximenes da Costa	since 2020	Inauguration: January 28, 2020

See also

• List of Japanese ambassadors in East Timor

Web links

Commons : List of East Timorese Ambassadors to Japan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Embassy of Japan in Dili: Relasaun Bilateral (tetum), accessed on May 27, 2017.
2. ↑ History of Timor ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 824 kB) - Technical University of Lisbon 
3. ↑ Loro Horta : "Timor-Leste - The Dragon's Newest Friend", 2009 (PDF; 103 kB), accessed on May 20, 2012.
4. ↑ ABCnews, March 15, 2011, Outpouring of international support for Japan , accessed May 20, 2012.
5. ↑ AllGov: Ambassador to the United States from East Timor: Who Is Domingos Sarmento Alves? , accessed February 24, 2015.
6. ^ Nanzan University: 2012 Workshop with mainly sponsored Department of Asian studies and Asia-Pacific Studies Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies , accessed May 24, 2018.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the President of East Timor: HE THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, TAUR MATAN RUAK, SWEARS IN THE AMBASSADORS OF TIMOR-LESTE TO CHINA, JAPAN, THE HOLY SEE, CAMBODIA, THAILAND AND SINGAPORE , November 19, 2015  ( page no longer retrievable , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 22, 2016  
8. ↑ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan: 駐 日 各国 大使 リ ス ト , accessed April 22, 2016.
9. ↑ Tatoli: Aban, Xefe Estadu Pose Embaixadór Sia , January 27, 2020 , accessed on January 27, 2020.