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...been since May, this six-member Supreme Council remained split down the middle on the questions of whether and how to end the war. One faction of three, headed by Prime Minister Suzuki and joined by Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo and Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, favored negotiating for peace on the most favorable terms still remaining; the other, led by War Minister Anami, argued that defeat and death would be more honorable than surrender and occupation and that Japan had no choice but to fight on. The debate continued in a Cabinet meeting that ran more than eight hours...
Japanese military censors delayed that message for 10 hours, so it was almost midnight on Dec. 7 in Tokyo when U.S. Ambassador Joseph Grew sped with it to the Foreign Ministry. It was past 3 a.m. -- and Fuchida's bombers were within sight of Pearl Harbor -- when Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, in full diplomatic regalia, reached the Imperial Palace. He found the Emperor listening to his shortwave radio. Togo read him the message and then the response that the government had already written for him. It said that peace was the Emperor's "cherished desire." This would "do well," Hirohito...
...does not mesh with being Japanese. Indeed, many Japanese seem less interested in defining themselves as even Buddhist or Shintoist than in finding the "spirit" of being Japanese. "The real quest is to find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a beautiful flower," says Shigenori Kameoka, director of the Shinto Moral Training Society. "To be a good person, yes. But in order to be one, to be a good Japanese." -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Alan Tansman/Tokyo
...Died. Shigenori Togo, 67, Japanese career diplomat who became Foreign Minister seven weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack and internal ailments; in Tokyo. Tried as a war criminal in 1948, he insisted that he had opposed Premier Hideki Tojo's expansionist policies, but was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment...
...importance of little Shigenori Togo in this huge picture was grotesquely exaggerated. He is a mild, faint-voiced career diplomat who has never wielded real weight in Japanese politics. As a negotiator in Russia he was probably no more than Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's on-the-spot agent...