Masahide Kanayama

Augustine Masahide Kanayama ( Japanese 金山 政 英 Kanayama Masahide ; * 1909 ; † November 1997 ) was a Japanese diplomat .

Career

Kanayama worked from 1942 to 1945 under Ambassador Ken Harada at the Japanese legation to the Holy See . In his position he tried Pope Pius XII in the spring of 1945 . as an intermediary between the Japanese and US governments for an early surrender.

After the end of World War II , he followed Harada as Chargé d'affaires at the Holy See. In 1952 he went to the Japanese Embassy in the Philippines as a Legation Counselor , and from 1954 to 1957 he was Consul General in Hawaii . In 1957 he was appointed General Director of the European Department at the Japanese Foreign Ministry. From 1961 to 1963 he was Consul General in New York , where he also served two years as President of the Society of Foreign Consules . Between 1963 and 1972 he was the Japanese ambassador to Chile , Poland and South Korea . He left the foreign service in 1972, but remained active in several international research and cultural organizations.

Nine months after his death in 1997, he was buried in a Catholic cemetery near Seoul .

Honors

• 1960: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Mariko Ikehara: Kanayama Masahide: Catholicism and Mid-Twentieth-Century Japanese Diplomacy , In: Kevin M. Doak (Ed.): Xavier's Legacies: Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture , The University of British Columbia Press, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIA documents (published 1993), Historical Review Program: Memoranda for the President - Japanese Feelers [1] , PDF
2. ↑ Martin S. Quigley: Peace Without Hiroshima . Madison Books, Lanham, Maryland 1991, ISBN 0-8191-8056-4 ( book excerpt ( MS Word ; 289 kB)).
3. ↑ Martin S. Quigley: Peace Without Hiroshima . Madison Books, Lanham, Maryland 1991, Appendix: Biography Masahide Kanayama, p. 168 .
4. ^ Society of Foreign Consules in New York website [2]
5. ^ "Japan tipped S. Korea on secret US nuke pact" The China Post , January 11, 2010 [3] .
6. ↑ Modern Asian Studies 6 (1972), pp. 49-61 JSTOR 311986 .

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