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...Japanese had been piped aboard four minutes before MacArthur made his appearance. The first aboard was the silk-hatted Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, limping on his wooden leg, leaning on his cane and clutching at the ship's ropes as he pulled himself up the stairway. The second was the dour, solemn-faced Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Yoshijiro Umezu-his chest covered with ribbons and hung with gold braid, his eyes blank and unseeing...
Outstanding among the new Ministers: hypochondriacal Prince Fumimaro Konoye, 53, ex-Premier who resigned two months before Pearl Harbor, now Minister without Portfolio; wily Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, 65, ex-Premier and a holdover from the Suzuki Cabinet, now Navy Minister; one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, 58, an Army favorite, another Cabinet holdover, now Foreign Minister. The War Ministry went to the new Premier...
...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...
...Shigemitsu aged, became sallow and bitter. He met one-legged U.S. Author Ellery Walter, who had mastered the use of his artificial leg so perfectly that casual observers never suspected he had it. Shigemitsu took an envious liking to Walter, learned from him how to use a wooden...