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Posthumous Honors Conferred upon the Foreign Ministry Officials and Local Staff Member of the Japanese Embassy in Iraq

December 5, 2003

The Government of Japan, at its Cabinet Meeting on December 5 (Fri), decided to confer orders on the two officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and on one local staff member (driver) of the Embassy of Japan in Iraq who were killed in Iraq in the pursuit of their duties: Mr. Katsuhiko Oku, Ambassador of the Embassy of Japan in the U.K., Mr. Masamori Inoue, First Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in Iraq, and Mr. Jerjees Sulaiman Zura, a local staff member (driver).

The honors are as follows:

  • To the late Ambassador Katsuhiko Oku:
        The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

  • To the late First Secretary Masamori Inoue:
        The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays

  • To the late Jerjees Sulaiman Zura, local staff member (driver),:
        The Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays
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