Word: mamoru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American stood arm in arm, beaming. "Glad to see you. It's been a long time. Glad to see you," said Douglas MacArthur, 75, General of the Army and chairman of the board of Sperry Rand. "We don't just want to reminisce about the past." said Mamoru Shigemitsu, 68, Foreign Minister of Japan. "We want to talk about the future." Ten years before, to the day, they had met aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Shigemitsu to sign the surrender of Imperial Japan, MacArthur to accept...
...Japanese, whom he had confronted in his highest moment of victory, Douglas MacArthur concluded: war was passing out of existence because of "the growing realization that the victor can no longer win." Thus assured, Mamoru Shigemitsu got ready to go back home...
This week Mamoru Shigemitsu, 68, once more Foreign Minister of Japan, is in the U.S. to discuss questions of foreign policy and mutual defense. After ten years, it was time, said he in San Francisco, "to wash out any trace of that unfortunate war." The position of Mamoru Shigemitsu, despite the past, was that of a friend. His road to Washington had many a twist...
...Paris Peace Conference in Versailles. As Minister to China (1931-33), Shigemitsu unaffectedly supported the Japanese invasions. His specious argument: "China is not properly a nation or a state." One day in Shanghai, a Korean patriot hurled a homemade grenade at a group of Japanese officials, and Mamoru Shigemitsu lost...
...last fortnight, the Philippines had reduced its claim by 90%. It asked only $20 million in cash, $30 million for "services," including ridding Manila Bay of its sunken hulks, the rest in capital goods, and investment loans. Still the Japanese balked. Last week Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu hinted to the Japanese Diet that he might compromise between Manila's $800 million demand and Japan's last offer of $400 million...