Naotake SatÅ
Naotake Satō (Japanese佐藤 尚武; born October 30, 1882 in Osaka Prefecture, Empire of Japan, † December 18, 1971 in Japan) was a Japanese diplomat and politician.
Life
Satō closed in 1904, the Higher Commercial School of Tokyo (东京 高等 商业 学校, Tōkyō Kōtō Shōgyō Gakko ), today's Hitotsubashi University, from. A year later, he passed the entrance exam for the Foreign Service and took a position in the Japanese Foreign Ministry. After using the Japanese Consul General in Mukden and as chief secretary in the negotiation of the London Naval Treaty, he served 1930-1933 as Japanese Ambassador to Belgium and France. In March 1937, he was Foreign Minister in the short-lived cabinet of Hayashi Senjūrō . In the following first cabinet of Konoe Fumimaro and Tōjō Hideki, he served as foreign policy advisor. In 1942 he came to the request of the then Foreign Minister Shigenori Tōgō after and was Ambassador of Japan to the Soviet Union. This he remained until the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945. During his time as ambassador, he should try to expand on the basis of the Japanese- Soviet Neutrality Pact, the cooperation between the two States and the Soviet Union may move to support the Japanese war effort in the Pacific War, which was rejected due to the steadily deteriorating situation for Japan.
Satō 1947, was elected for the Aomori Prefecture in the new Japanese Upper House, the Sangiin and belonged to Ryokufūkai Group, in 1953 and 1959, he was re-elected for two more terms. From 1949 to 1953 he was president of the Sangiin.
Awards
He received in 1931 the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st class, 1934 Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class, and posthumously the Order of the special stage Paulownienblüte. In addition, he held the following second court rank.
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- Minister of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
- President of Sangiin
- Japanese Ambassador to France
- Japanese Ambassador to Russia
- Ambassador to Belgium
- Of the Order of the Rising Sun
- Of the Order of the Sacred Treasure
- Japanese
- Born in 1882
- Died in 1971
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