Shigemitsu Mamoru

Shigemitsu Mamoru

▪ Japanese diplomat
born July 29, 1887, Ōita, Japan
died Jan. 26, 1957, Yugawara
 Japanese diplomat who served as minister of foreign affairs in various cabinets and was one of the signers of Japan's surrender to the Allies at the end of World War II.

      Shigemitsu, a graduate of Tokyo University, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1911. By 1918 he held a position in the embassy in Poland and, while in Europe, attended the Paris Peace Conference. After serving in the embassy in Germany, he became consul general of Shanghai and in 1931 Japanese minister to China. In 1933 Shigemitsu became Japan's vice-minister of foreign affairs. He later served as ambassador to the Soviet Union and to Great Britain.

      In 1943 Shigemitsu was called to serve as minister of foreign affairs under Tōjō Hideki and later served in Prime Minister Koiso Kuniaki's cabinet. During the war he favoured a number of conciliatory measures in hopes of gaining an early peace. On Sept. 2, 1945, as foreign minister in Higashikuni Naruhiko's cabinet, Shigemitsu signed Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies. He was convicted of war crimes and was sentenced to seven years in prison; he was paroled in 1950.

      In 1952 Shigemitsu became chairman of the Progressive Party and, later, assistant chairman of the Democratic Party. In 1954 Shigemitsu again served as minister of foreign affairs—this time in Hatoyama Ichirō's cabinet.

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