The Senate on Thursday approved President Donald Trump's nomination of Tennessee businessman William Hagerty as U.S. ambassador to Japan.Hagerty, 57, is expected to take up the post in August, according to a source familiar with Japan-U.S. relations.He will serve in Tokyo at a time when the security environment in the Asia-Pacific region has become increasingly severe amid China's military buildup and territorial ambitions in the East and South China seas, as well as North Korea's development of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles that could strike as far as the United States.
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