Mamoru Shigemitsu

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Mamoru Shigemitsu (重光 葵, July 29 1887 - June 27, 1957) was the Japanese Minister of Foreign affairs at the end of World War II.

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He, along with Yoshijiro Umezu, signed the instrument of surrender on September 2, 1945. He was later convicted of war crimes, and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. He was paroled in 1950, and again served as Foreign minister (1954-1956).

Prior to that, he was

• Japan's ambassador to the Republic of China (1931-1932)
• Vice minister of foreign affairs (1933-1936)
• Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1936-1938
• Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1938-1941).

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