Masahide Kanayama
Augustine Masahide Kanayama (Japanese金山 政 英Masahide Kanayama, * 1909, † November 1997) was a Japanese diplomat.
Career
Kanayama was from 1942 to 1945 under Ambassador Ken Harada at the Japanese embassy to the Holy See operates. In his position, he tried in 1945 Pope Pius XII in the spring. as a mediator between the Japanese and the U.S. government to win for a premature surrender.
After the end of World War II, he followed Harada as Chargé to the Holy See. In 1952 he went as a counselor of legation to the Japanese Embassy in the Philippines from 1954 to 1957 he was Consul General in Hawaii. In 1957 he was appointed General Director of the European Department in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1961 to 1963 he was Consul General in New York, where he served as president of the Society of Foreign consuls two years. Between 1963 and 1972 he was Japanese Ambassador to Chile, Poland and South Korea. He retired in 1972 from the foreign service, but remained active in several international research and cultural organizations.
Nine months after his death in 1997 he was buried in a Catholic cemetery in Seoul.