Fujisaki Masato (diplomat)

Fujisaki Masato ( Japanese 藤 崎 萬里 ; * December 16, 1914 in Kagoshima Prefecture ; † October 6, 2006 ) was a Japanese diplomat .

During his diplomatic career, he was the Consul General of Japan in Seattle from 1960 to 1962 , the Japanese Ambassador to the Netherlands and from 1972 to 1976 the Japanese Ambassador to Thailand . He was a participant in the 1951 peace conference in San Francisco and was involved in the conclusion of the security treaty with the USA and the basic treaty with the Republic of Korea .

Fujisaki replaced Shimoda Takezo as judge at the Supreme Court of Japan in April 1977 and held this office until December 1984. He has now been replaced by Takashima Masuro .

His son Ichirō Fujisaki also embarked on a diplomatic career after a long teaching activity and has been the Japanese ambassador to the United States since 2008 . The politician Takeaki Matsumoto is the nephew of Fujisaki's wife Fusako.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kotobank.jp: Fujisaki Masato in the online edition of Nihon jimmei daijiten, Kōdansha 2009.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Seattle Mariners honor Japanese ambassador to US at Safeco Field ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Seattle Mariners news release , Sept. 14, 2010 
3. ↑ List of the Japanese ambassadors in Thailand on the website of the embassy in Bangkok ( memento of the original from November 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ 藤 崎 万里 氏 死去 元 最高 裁判 事 、 元 駐 タ イ 大使 . In: Kyōdō Tsūshin . 47 News, October 10, 2006, accessed March 20, 2011 (Japanese). 
5. ↑ Hiroshi Itoh: The Supreme Court and benign elite democracy in Japan (2010)
6. ↑ kingendaikeizu.net: Takeaki Matsumoto family tree

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Fujisaki is the family name, Masato the first name.