Kasumigaseki Diplomacy - Kasumigaseki Gaiko

…When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was founded, it was located in Tsukiji, Chuo Ward, Tokyo, but in December 1970, it moved to its current location in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda Ward, on the former site of the Ministry of Civil Affairs (the former residence of Kuroda, the feudal lord of Fukuoka). Since then, it has been located in its current location, except for a period when it was temporarily moved to Enryokan (then the state guest house) in Hama-rikyu Gardens, Chuo Ward, after a fire in 1977, and when it moved to various locations around Kasumigaseki from the end of the Pacific War to the early postwar period, when it was mainly located around Kasumigaseki. This is why the name "Kasumigaseki diplomacy" was born. According to the personnel order of 1969, the six ministries, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were each assigned the ranks of Minister, Daifu, Shofu, Daijo, Gon-Daijo, Shojo, and Gon-Shojo, with Sawa Nobuyoshi as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Terashima Munenori as the first Gon-Daifu. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Kasumigaseki diplomacy" is listed below.

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…外務省は創立の際，現在の東京都中央区築地にあったが，70年12月，千代田区霞が関の民部省跡(福岡藩主黒田邸跡)の現在の地に移った。以後，77年の火災で中央区浜離宮庭園内にあった延遼館(当時の迎賓館)に一時移転し，また太平洋戦争末期から戦後初期におもに霞が関周辺の各所に移った期間を除き，現在の地にあり，このため〈霞が関外交〉の名が生まれた。　69年の前記職員令により，外務省を含む6省にそれぞれ卿，大輔，少輔，大丞，権大丞，少丞，権少丞などの官が置かれ，初代の外務卿には沢宣嘉，外務大輔には寺島宗則が就任した。…

※「霞が関外交」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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