Masao Nakayama

Masao Nakayama (Japanese: 中山利生,^[1] born 1941, Chuuk) is a politician and diplomat of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).

In 1968, Nakayama was elected a member of the Truk District Legislature. In 1969, he was elected to the Congress of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. After Micronesian independence, Nakayama was the Chief of International Affairs in the Foreign Affairs Department of the FSM from 1980 to 1989.^[2]

From 1989 to 1997, Nakayama was the ambassador of FSM to Japan. At the same time, he was concurrently the non-resident ambassador of FSM to China, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Singapore. In 1998, Nakayama was appointed the Permanent Representative of FSM to the United Nations in New York City.

Nakayama is the younger brother of FSM's first president, Tosiwo Nakayama^[2] and was born to a Japanese father and a Chuukese mother.^[3] He is also married with six children.

Notes

1. ^ ファルカム・ミクロネシア連邦大統領非公式訪日（概要と評価）, January 29, 2002, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
2. ^ ^{a b} Nakayama as Ambassador to Japan (p. 4/12): The National Union, Volume 10, Number 12, December 1989
3. ^ Look Japan, Volume 39,–Issue 445–-–Volume 40,–Issue 465, Publisher Look Japan, Ltd., 1993, p. 37

References

• New Permanent Representative of Federated States of Micronesia Presents Credentials", UN Press Release, UN Doc. BIO/3147, 1998-03-13

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