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Shigemitsu Mamoru (born July 29, 1887, Ōita, Japan—died Jan. 26, 1957, Yugawara) was a.
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Mamoru Shigemitsu was a Japanese diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs three times during and after World War II and as Deputy Prime Minister.

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49. Memorandum of a Conversation Between Secretary of State Dulles and Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, National Airport, Washington, September 1, 1955, 8:45 a.m.1

Washington, September 1, 1955, 8:45 a.m.

Mr. Shigemitsu expressed most warmly his appreciation for his treatment here and felt that the talks had been of inestimable value.

He asked whether or not we were giving thought to a possible Far Eastern conference. I said no, that one obstacle was the anti-Japanese attitude of Syngman Rhee. Shigemitsu said that Rhee was very difficult to deal with; that they had tried to be conciliatory but without any result.

I said that if ever the Japanese Government felt that a Far Eastern conference would be useful, I hoped that they would feel free to make the suggestion to us.

Mr. Shigemitsu said that if ever anything happened in Japan that we did not like, please to let him know through Ambassador Allison.

Mr. Shigemitsu said that he thought that sooner or later it would be necessary to recognize the fact of the Communist regime on the mainland, but that he hoped that we would not e

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SHIGEMITSU Mamoru

Graduated from the Law College of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1911. Beginning in 1929, he served as the General-Consul of Shanghai and the envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary in China. He lost a leg in a bombing in 1932. He served as the Minister of Foreign AffairsVice Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary in the USSR, England and China beginning in 1933. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Tojo Cabinet, Koiso Cabinet and Higashikuninomiya Cabinet to promote diplomatic relations during and after the war. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment as a class-A war criminal in 1948, but released on parole in 1950. He assumed the presidency of Japan Reform Party in 1952 and was elected a member of the House of Representatives in the 25th general election the same year. He was elected consecutively until the 27th general election. He served as the vice-president of Nihon Minshu-to (Japan Democratic Party) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the first to the third Hatoyama Cabinet

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Mamoru Shigemitsu

Surname	Shigemitsu
Given Name	Mamoru
Born	29 Jul 1887
Died	27 Jun 1957
Country	Japan
Category	Government
Gender	Male

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseMamoru Shigemitsu was born in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1907. He was the Japanese ambassador to China, Russia, and Britain prior to the war. Near the end of WW2, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He was among the Japanese diplomats who arrived aboard the battleship Missouri to sign the instrument of surrender on 2 Sep 1945. After the war, he was tried for waging war and for "deliberately and recklessly disregarded their duty", and was sentenced to seven years in prison. He was paroled in 1950. He returned to politics as a leader of the Reform Party, and was the Foreign Minister between 1954 and 1956.

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