Acting head takes post at Japan's Chongqing mission after long vacancy

A Japanese acting consul general has assumed his post in Chongqing, a Japanese government source said Wednesday, about eight months after the consul general post was left vacant amid a bilateral row over Taiwan.Shigehiro Nishiumi, a former Japanese deputy consul general in Hong Kong, assumed the post at Japan's diplomatic mission in the southwestern Chinese city on Aug. 4, the source said."Although his title is acting consul general, it has not affected services at the office," the government source said.There has been no head of the Japanese diplomatic mission in Chongqing since the previo…READ FULL ARTICLE