Matsumoto Shun'ichi

Matsumoto Shun'ichi ( Japanese 松本 俊 一 ; born June 7, 1897 in Taiwan , † January 25, 1987 ) was a Japanese diplomat and MP .

Career

Matsumoto, a law graduate from the Imperial University of Tokyo , became a civil servant at the Department of State after graduation . In 1942 he was under the cabinet of Tōjō Hideki permanent state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English Deputy Foreign Minister) and from November 1944 to taking control of the area in March 1945 Japanese ambassador to French Indochina . In 1945 he returned to the post of Deputy Foreign Minister and, against the background of the looming defeat of Japan in World War II, advocated the adoption of the Potsdam Declaration .

After the end of the war and the resumption of diplomatic relations, he was Japan's first ambassador to Great Britain from 1952 to 1955 . In 1956 he took part under Prime Minister Hatoyama Ichirō in the negotiations between Japan and the Soviet Union to establish diplomatic relations.

In 1955 he was elected to Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the Democratic Party of Japan in the four- mandate constituency of Hiroshima 2 . In the 2nd Kishi cabinet he was deputy head of the cabinet secretariat . After being voted out of office in 1963 , he became an advisor to the Foreign Ministry.

Honors

• 1960: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1967: Order of the Holy Treasure

Fonts

• Mosukuwa ni Kakeru Niji , Asahi Shimbunsha, 1966

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Matsumoto is the family name, Shun'ichi the first name.