Shigemitsu Mamoru, defendant, International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Born 29 July 1887; died 25 January 1957. Graduated Law Department, Tokyo Imperial University (July 1911); Third Secretary, Japanese Embassy to Britain (December 1916); Consul, Portland, Oregon (March 1918); member, Peace Plenipotentiary Party [Paris] (February 1919); First Secretary, Japanese Legation in China (January 1925); Councilor, Japanese Embassy to Germany (December 1927); Consul General, Shanghai (February 1929); Minister to China (1931 — 1932); Vice Foreign Minister (1933 — 1936); Ambassador to U.S.S.R. (August 1936 — September 1938); Ambassador to Britain (September 1938 — December 1941); Ambassador to China [Nanking] (December 1941 — April 1943); Foreign Minister, Tojo Cabinet (20 April 1943 — 21 July 1944); Foreign Minister, Koiso Cabinet (22 July 1944 — 7 April 1945); Greater Asiatic Minister, Koiso Cabinet (22 July 1944 — 7 April 1945); appointed to House of Peers, Imperial Diet (August 1945); Foreign Minister, Higashikuni Cabinet (17 Augusy 1945 — 17 September 1945); Greater Asiatic Minister, Higashikuni Cabinet (17 August 1945 — 26 August 1945); Delegate Plenipotentiary to Supreme Commander Allied Powers (29 August 1945 — 2 September 1945); Foreign Minister, First Hatoyama Cabinet (10 December 1954 — 18 March 1955); Foreign Minister, Second Hatoyama Cabinet (19 March 1955 — 22 November 1955); Foreign Minister, Third Hatoyama Cabinet (22 November 1955 — 22 December 1956). Arrested 28 April 1946; designated war criminal by U.S. Charged on thirty-seven counts (reduced to nine), found guilty on six counts; sentence to seven years imprisonment, paroled in 1950 and term commuted to five years, term expired in 1951.