Word: shigemitsu
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...central platform were General Shirakawa, commanding Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China, Ambassador to China Shigemitsu, Admiral Nomura, commanding the Japanese Third Fleet, and several other army and navy men, consuls and vice-consuls, Woosung Road bigwigs...
Officials most badly wounded were General Shirakawa, who later died, Ambassador Shigemitsu who had to have his leg amputated in the succeeding weeks, the last time by the Emperor's personal surgeon sent from Tokyo, and Admiral Nomura, whose eye was peppered with steel splinters, later had to have it removed. Others on the platform came away with painful injuries and cuts, but none was permanently disabled...
...joined in demanding firm action. There was even talk of retaliation against the many Japanese citizens living in the British Empire, and a Government spokesman broadcast the warning that Britain might be forced into "countermeasures for the protection of British rights." Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax called Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu to his office and gave him the talking to of his life. At Tokyo Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, the British Ambassador, also protested, conferred for a half hour with Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita on a basis for negotiation of a settlement of the British-Japanese deadlock at Tientsin. One point...
...hill of Changkufeng on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border seven weeks ago snarled the fighting forces of Japan and Russia. Moscow claimed the whole hill was in Soviet territory when the scrap started. But when a truce was finally arranged between Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan was left with her present firm hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches prophesied the forthcoming promotion...
...Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture Changkufeng Hill. Mr. Stomoniakov, as. Moscow's ace Far East expert, had presumably been advising Commissar Litvinoff to stand firm and await a Russian victory. After Stomoniakov was fired, Commissar Litvinoff quickly came to terms with Ambassador Shigemitsu, who had proposed the truce in the first place. It became effective at noon on August 11-just four days after the secret ousting of Stomoniakov...