Consulate General of Japan, Houston

Consulate-General of Japan in Houston 在ヒューストン日本国総領事館


Location	Houston, Texas, United States
Address	900 Fannin Street

2 Houston Center, the location of the consulate

The Consulate-General of Japan in Houston (在ヒューストン日本国総領事館, Zai Hyūsuton Nippon-koku Sōryōjikan) is Japan's diplomatic facility in Houston, Texas, United States. It is located in Suite 3000 at 2 Houston Center, which is located at 900 Fannin Street in Downtown Houston. The consulate serves Texas and Oklahoma.^[1]

As of March 2024^[update] the consul general is Zentaro NAGANUMA (長沼善太郎, NAGANUMA Zentaro).^[2]

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History

At one point the consulate was located in Suite 5300 and later Suite 2300 in the Wells Fargo Plaza (formerly the First Interstate Bank Plaza).^[3]^[4]

For a decade ending in 1993 the consulate refused to pay "user fees" billed to the consulate by the City of Piney Point Village in the Greater Houston Area. The consul general residence is in Piney Point Village. The Japanese argued that this was a tax and that diplomatic facilities should not be taxed.^[5] In 1993 the city announced that the consulate owed the city around $14,000 United States dollars.^[6] The Japanese argued that international agreements exempted consulate facilities from taxes, while Piney Point Village said the annual fees were for user services. James Baker, a Piney Point Village alderman, threatened to suspend garbage pickup services and expose the Japanese consulate to ridicule. In September of that year a U.S. State Department letter stated that consulates should pay legitimate user fees, and that consulates do not have to pay for fire and police services. The consulate paid almost $12,000, including $4,500 in interest, to the city. According to Vice-Consul Takaki Takinami originally the city charged $14,915.52 before changing the invoice and deducting police and fire costs. Shojiro Imanishi (今西正次郎, Imanishi Shōjirō), who was the outgoing consul-general, agreed to pay $4,500 annually.^[7]

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2 Houston Center, the location of the consulate
Wells Fargo Plaza, the former location of the consulate

References

^ "Consulate-General of Japan in Houston Archived 2008-06-29 at the Wayback Machine." Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. Retrieved on December 24, 2008.
^ "Home". Japanese Consulate-General, Houston. Retrieved 2023-10-21. - Name in kanji here. The English page puts the consul general's name in Japanese order (family name first), as "MURABAYASHI Hirofumi" while other English sources like the Texas Secretary of State (see here) and NY1 (see here) use Western order (family name last), as "Hirofumi Murabayashi"
^ "East Asia Diplomatic Representatives in the United States Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine." Ohio University. Retrieved on December 24, 2008.
^ "Consulate-General of Japan at Houston". www.houston.us.emb-japan.go.jp. Archived from the original on 4 August 2002. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Tolson, Mike. "Piney Point Village tells Japanese Consulate to pay its way/$14, 000 in user fees, or forget garbage pickup." Houston Chronicle. Tuesday September 21, 1993. A11. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.
^ "City says Japan owes $14,000 consulate debt." Associated Press. September 22, 1993. Retrieved on December 24, 2008.
^ Tolson, Mike. "Japanese consul coughs up Piney Point's fees." Houston Chronicle. Wednesday December 15, 1993. Section A, Page 36. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.

External links

Consulate-General of Japan in Houston
Consulate-General of Japan in Houston (in Japanese)

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