Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed (21 March 2003) National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Japan, Reverend Father Paul Masanori Koga. The new National Director was born on 12 August 1959, in Kagoshima, Japan. He studied at philosophy Sophia University and Graduate School of Nazan University and theology at Graduate School Sophia University. He was ordained a priest in 1990 and has since been: assistant priest, treasurer Tokyo diocese; parochial vicar, parish priest; director of the department of the religious Corporation Japan. (Fides Service 26/3/2003 EM lines 12 Words: 113)