Word: mamoru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mamoru Shigemitsu, who was Foreign Minister under Tojo. He now holds that job as well as the Ministry for Greater East Asia Affairs. Acceptable to the Army and big business, he is considered a moderate. In 1938, he settled a serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...
Japan. After hurried conferences with the German and Italian ambassadors, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu told the Cabinet that Japan's war policy would remain unchanged, despite any "new developments" which might follow the resignation of Benito Mussolini...
Premier Hideki Tojo shuffled his Cabinet last week and gave Japan a new Foreign Minister: wooden-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu...
...Korean acts of terrorism. The list was more notable for length than for accuracy. Most impressive of the checkable acts was the 1932 bombing of a reviewing stand in Shanghai after a parade in honor of Japan's Emperor: General Yoshinori Shirakawa lost his life, Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu his leg and Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura his right eye. Author of that bombing was one In Hokichi. As for most other Korean terrorists, their aim was no better than Park Soowon...
...unhappiest of those who were waiting for bombs in London last week was little Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu. One reason he was unhappy was because he knew all about bombs. On the morning of April 29, 1932, an insurgent Korean rushed a grandstand in Shanghai's Hongkew Park, where Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday, and threw a "thermos bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities...