Mamoru Shigemitsu

Shigemitsu Mamoru (Japanese重 光 葵, born July 29, 1887 in the prefecture of Oita, † 27 June 1957 Yugawara ) was Foreign Minister of Japan in World War II.

He signed with Yoshijiro Umezu on September 2, 1945 aboard the battleship USS Missouri, the unconditional surrender of Japan. He was later sentenced to seven years in prison during the Tokyo processes as war criminals. In 1950 he was pardoned and was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 1954 to 1956 in Japan.

Previously, he was also

  • Ambassador of Japan in China (1931-1932)
  • Deputy Foreign Minister (1933-1936)
  • Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1936-1938)
  • Ambassador to Great Britain (1938-1941)
June 27 Yugawara, Kanagawa War crime Mutsu Munemitsu Saionji Kinmochi Sone Arasuke Nobuyuki Abe Hitoshi Ashida Nobusuke Kishi Takeo Miki Kiichi Aichi Takeo Fukuda Makiko Tanaka Hirofumi Nakasone Katsuya Okada Fumio Kishida Integrated Authority File
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