Farewell message of Japanese Ambassador Koji Haneda who is ending his tour of duty in the Philippines.

THE time has come for me to make my final bow. When I was appointed to the Philippines as a balikbayan ambassador three years ago, I could not have asked for a better assignment. It is the perfect bookends to my 40 years of diplomatic service. I started my career as a junior diplomat in Manila in the early 1980s, so what better way to culminate my life’s work on a high note than here in the country I consider my second home.

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