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Caroline Kennedy to Tokyo

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Jul 30, 2013
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President Obama's choice of Caroline Kennedy to be the next US ambassador to Japan falls within a long tradition of appointing political celebrities to represent the country, a tradition that began with her father the late President John F. Kennedy.

Since then Washington has stoked the collective Japanese ego by naming such figures as former vice preside…

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