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{{Short description|Japanese diplomat and politician (1889–1962)}}
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{{Nihongo|'''Tani Masayuki '''|谷正之}} (2 September 1889 - 16 October 1962)<ref name="FrédéricRoth2002">{{cite book|author1=Louis Frédéric|author2=Käthe Roth|title=Japan Encyclopedia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA949|accessdate=8 January 2013|year=2002|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-01753-5|pages=949}}</ref> was a Japanese diplomat and politician who was briefly foreign minister of Japan from September 1942 and 21 April 1943 during [[World War II]].
{{Nihongo|'''Masayuki Tani'''|谷正之}} (2 September 1889&nbsp;– 16 October 1962)<ref name="FrédéricRoth2002">{{cite book|author1=Louis Frédéric|author2=Käthe Roth|title=Japan Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA949|year=2002|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-01753-5|pages=949}}</ref> was a Japanese diplomat and politician who was briefly foreign minister of Japan from September 1942 to 21 April 1943 during [[World War&nbsp;II]].


==Career==
==Career==
Masayuki was a career diplomat before assuming ministerial roles.<ref name="Shillony1991">{{cite book|author=Ben Ami Shillony|title=Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PN1VOByJjE8C&pg=PA34|accessdate=8 January 2013|year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-820260-8|pages=34}}</ref> More specifically, he was Japanese ambassador to [[France]] (1918-1923), to [[the United States|the US]] (1927-1930) and to [[Manchukuo]] (1933-1936).<ref name="FrédéricRoth2002"/> In addition, he was chief of Asian Bureau in the ministry of foreign affairs.<ref name=Sakai>{{cite journal|last=Sakai|first=Tetsuya|title=The Soviet Factor in Japanese Foreign Policy, 1923-1937|journal=Acta Slavica Japonica|date=1988|volume=6|pages=27-40|url=http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/7975/1/KJ00000034137.pdf|accessdate=8 January 2013}}</ref> He also worked as counsellor to the Japanese embassy in [[Hsinking]] and as minister-at-large in [[China]].<ref name=straits/>
Tani was a career diplomat before assuming ministerial roles.<ref name="Shillony1991">{{cite book|author=Ben Ami Shillony|title=Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PN1VOByJjE8C&pg=PA34|year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-820260-8|pages=34}}</ref> More specifically, he served at the embassy in [[France]] (1918-1923), [[United States]] (1927–1930) and [[Manchukuo]] (1933–1936).<ref name="FrédéricRoth2002"/> In 1930, he was chief of Asian Bureau in the ministry of foreign affairs.<ref name=Sakai>{{cite journal|last=Sakai|first=Tetsuya|title=The Soviet Factor in Japanese Foreign Policy, 1923-1937|journal=Acta Slavica Japonica|year=1988|volume=6|pages=27–40|url=http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/7975/1/KJ00000034137.pdf|accessdate=8 January 2013}}</ref> He also worked as counsellor to the Japanese embassy in [[Changchun|Xinjing]] and as [[ambassador-at-large]] in [[China]].<ref name=ppress>{{cite news|title=Japanese seek British truce in China areas|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Jk0bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D0wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1451,3258748&dq=tani+masayuki+died&hl=en|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|date=23 March 1938|agency=The United Press|location=Shanghai}}</ref>


He served as foreign vice minister in the cabinet of [[Mitsumasa Yonai]]<ref name="Nish2002">{{cite book|author=Ian Hill Nish|title=Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QJCybygKzJIC&pg=PA144|accessdate=8 January 2013|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-94791-0|pages=144}}</ref> when appointed under then foreign minister [[Kichisaburō Nomura]] on 24 September 1939.<ref name=straits>{{cite news|title=Japan's new foreign minister|url=http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19390925.2.82.aspx|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=24 September 1939|location=Tokyo|pages=12}}</ref>
He served as vice minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of [[Mitsumasa Yonai]]<ref name="Nish2002">{{cite book|author=Ian Hill Nish|title=Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJCybygKzJIC&pg=PA144|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-94791-0|pages=144}}</ref> when appointed under then foreign minister [[Kichisaburō Nomura]] on 24 September 1939.<ref name=straits>{{cite news|title=Japan's new foreign minister|url=http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19390925.2.82.aspx|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=24 September 1939|location=Tokyo|pages=12}}</ref>


Then Masayuki served as information chief and also, foreign minister in the cabinet of [[Hideki Tōjō]].<ref name=sreviewer/> He was appointed foreign minister on 17 September 1942.<ref name="BoogKrebs2006">{{cite book|author1=Horst Boog|author2=Gerhard Krebs|author3=Detlef Vogel|title=Germany and the Second World War: Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rVVeO4B985wC&pg=PA740|accessdate=8 January 2013|date=4 May 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-822889-9|pages=740}}</ref><ref name=evening>{{cite news|title=Militarist named Togo's successor|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RPVPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OFUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5757,1675770&dq=tani+masayuki+died&hl=en|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Evening Independent|date=17 September 1942|location=Tokyo}}</ref> During his tenure, Japan continued to encourage a separate peace between [[Germany]] and [[the Soviet Union]].<ref name=BoogKrebs2006/> However, his term lasted short. Since bureaucracts in the ministry of foreign affairs resented Masayuki,<ref name=Shillony1991/> on 21 April 1943, he was replaced by [[Mamoru Shigemitsu]].<ref name=sydney>{{cite news|title=Japan's cabinet changes|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17845462?searchTerm=&searchLimits=l-publictag=Kunihiko+Hashida|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=21 April 1943|agency=AAP|location=New York}}</ref>
Then Tani served as information chief and also, foreign minister in the cabinet of [[Hideki Tōjō]].<ref name=sreviewer/> He was appointed foreign minister on 17 September 1942.<ref name="BoogKrebs2006">{{cite book|author1=Horst Boog|author2=Gerhard Krebs|author3=Detlef Vogel|title=Germany and the Second World War: Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVVeO4B985wC&pg=PA740|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-822889-9|pages=740}}</ref><ref name=evening>{{cite news|title=Militarist named Togo's successor|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RPVPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OFUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5757,1675770&dq=tani+masayuki+died&hl=en|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Evening Independent|date=17 September 1942|location=Tokyo}}</ref> During his tenure, Japan continued to encourage a separate peace between [[Germany]] and [[the Soviet Union]].<ref name=BoogKrebs2006/> However, his term was short. Since bureaucrats in the ministry of foreign affairs resented Tani,<ref name=Shillony1991/> on 21 April 1943, he was replaced by [[Mamoru Shigemitsu]].<ref name=sydney>{{cite news|title=Japan's cabinet changes|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17845462?searchTerm=&searchLimits=l-publictag=Kunihiko+Hashida|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=21 April 1943|agency=AAP|location=New York}}</ref> After that, he received Shigemitsu's former post of Japanese ambassador in [[Nanjing]] to the [[Reorganized National Government of China]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Boyle | first = John H. | year = 1972 | title = China and Japan at War, 1937-1945; The Politics of Collaboration | publisher = Stanford University Press | isbn = 0804708002 | page = 307}}</ref>


After World War II, Masayuki was detained as a suspect of war crimes until December 1948.<ref name=sreviewer/> However, he was not convicted.<ref name=sreviewer/> Then he served again as Japan's ambassador to the United states from March 1956 to April 1957,<ref name=dofstate>{{cite web|title=Telegram From the Embassy in Japan to the Department of State|url=http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v23p1/d23|publisher=US Department of State|accessdate=8 January 2013|date=2 April 1955}}</ref> becoming the third post-war ambassador of Japan to the US.<ref name=sreviewer>{{cite news|title=Tani's outlook shaped by GIS|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xgMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3347,3805566&dq=tani+masayuki+died&hl=en|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Spokesman Review|date=11 February 1956|agency=AP|location=Tokyo}}</ref>
After World War II, Tani was detained as a suspect of war crimes until December 1948.<ref name=sreviewer/> However, he was not convicted.<ref name=sreviewer/> Then he served again as Japan's ambassador to the United States from March 1956 to April 1957,<ref name=dofstate>{{cite web|title=Telegram From the Embassy in Japan to the Department of State|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v23p1/d23|publisher=US Department of State|accessdate=8 January 2013|date=2 April 1955}}</ref> becoming the third post-war ambassador of Japan to the US.<ref name=sreviewer>{{cite news|title=Tani's outlook shaped by GIS|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xgMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3347,3805566&dq=tani+masayuki+died&hl=en|accessdate=8 January 2013|newspaper=The Spokesman Review|date=11 February 1956|agency=AP|location=Tokyo}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Tani was married and had three children, a daughter and two sons.<ref name=sreviewer/>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
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Revision as of 04:09, 14 November 2023

Masayuki Tani
谷正之
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
17 September 1942 – 21 April 1943
Prime MinisterHideki Tōjō
Preceded byShigenori Tōgō
Succeeded byMamoru Shigemitsu
Personal details
Born2 September 1889
Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Died16 October 1962 (aged 73)
Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Tani (谷正之) (2 September 1889 – 16 October 1962)[1] was a Japanese diplomat and politician who was briefly foreign minister of Japan from September 1942 to 21 April 1943 during World War II.

Career

Tani was a career diplomat before assuming ministerial roles.[2] More specifically, he served at the embassy in France (1918-1923), United States (1927–1930) and Manchukuo (1933–1936).[1] In 1930, he was chief of Asian Bureau in the ministry of foreign affairs.[3] He also worked as counsellor to the Japanese embassy in Xinjing and as ambassador-at-large in China.[4]

He served as vice minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Mitsumasa Yonai[5] when appointed under then foreign minister Kichisaburō Nomura on 24 September 1939.[6]

Then Tani served as information chief and also, foreign minister in the cabinet of Hideki Tōjō.[7] He was appointed foreign minister on 17 September 1942.[8][9] During his tenure, Japan continued to encourage a separate peace between Germany and the Soviet Union.[8] However, his term was short. Since bureaucrats in the ministry of foreign affairs resented Tani,[2] on 21 April 1943, he was replaced by Mamoru Shigemitsu.[10] After that, he received Shigemitsu's former post of Japanese ambassador in Nanjing to the Reorganized National Government of China.[11]

After World War II, Tani was detained as a suspect of war crimes until December 1948.[7] However, he was not convicted.[7] Then he served again as Japan's ambassador to the United States from March 1956 to April 1957,[12] becoming the third post-war ambassador of Japan to the US.[7]

Personal life

Tani was married and had three children, a daughter and two sons.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Louis Frédéric; Käthe Roth (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 949. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
  2. ^ a b Ben Ami Shillony (1991). Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-19-820260-8.
  3. ^ Sakai, Tetsuya (1988). "The Soviet Factor in Japanese Foreign Policy, 1923-1937" (PDF). Acta Slavica Japonica. 6: 27–40. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Japanese seek British truce in China areas". The Pittsburgh Press. Shanghai. The United Press. 23 March 1938. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  5. ^ Ian Hill Nish (2002). Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-275-94791-0.
  6. ^ "Japan's new foreign minister". The Straits Times. Tokyo. 24 September 1939. p. 12. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Tani's outlook shaped by GIS". The Spokesman Review. Tokyo. AP. 11 February 1956. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  8. ^ a b Horst Boog; Gerhard Krebs; Detlef Vogel (2006). Germany and the Second World War: Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5. Oxford University Press. p. 740. ISBN 978-0-19-822889-9.
  9. ^ "Militarist named Togo's successor". The Evening Independent. Tokyo. 17 September 1942. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  10. ^ "Japan's cabinet changes". The Sydney Morning Herald. New York. AAP. 21 April 1943. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  11. ^ Boyle, John H. (1972). China and Japan at War, 1937-1945; The Politics of Collaboration. Stanford University Press. p. 307. ISBN 0804708002.
  12. ^ "Telegram From the Embassy in Japan to the Department of State". US Department of State. 2 April 1955. Retrieved 8 January 2013.

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Preceded by Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
1942–1943 		Succeeded by
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