Matsudaira Kōtō

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Matsudaira Kōtō ( Japanese 松 平 康 東 ; * February 5, 1903 in Tokyo ; † May 4, 1994 ) was a Japanese diplomat .

biography

The son of a shipowner studied law at the Imperial University . 1926, even before completing his studies, he began to work for the Foreign Service of Japan and his doctorate in 1931 in Paris at the doctor juris . From 1932 he was a member of the Japanese delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva. In 1934 he moved to the contract department of the Japanese Foreign Office, where he worked until 1941. From the beginning of that year until the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he was embassy secretary in Washington. Back in Japan he worked in a leading position for the contract department of the Foreign Office before he went to Moscow in 1944 as embassy secretary. From 1957 to May 1961 he was Japan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Koto Matsudaira - Munzinger biography . March 9, 1959. Archived from the original on December 26, 2019. Retrieved on May 27, 2020.

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