Tatsuo Hirayama
# Tatsuo Hirayama

Tatsuo Hirayama is a Japanese diplomat. He was the Japanese ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and other CARICOM countries. Hirayama was appointed on 16 January 2019. He previously served as the Consul General of Japan in Perth, Australia.

On his tenure as the ambassador to T&T and CARICOM, he played a key role in supporting hygiene against the COVID-19 pandemic in this region, such as twenty-three Viral RNA Test Kits for the CARPHA Medical Microbiology Laboratory in Port of Spain and US$267,724 donation for the purchase of kits to conduct approximately 72,090 tests for Guyana, Jamaica and Suriname.

