Saburo Kurusu

Saburo Kurusu was a veteran diplomat who signed the Tripartite Pact as Japan's Ambassador to Germany in 1940. In November 1941, he was dispatched to Washington as a special envoy to assist Ambassador Nomura in urgent peace negotiations with the U.S. Kurusu met directly with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, attempting to resolve deadlocks surrounding the Hull Note. Unable to stop the military's decision to launch the war, he was later purged from public office post-war, leaving valuable testimony as a central figure in pre-war diplomacy.

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Year	Saburo Kurusu
1886	Birth of Saburo Kurusu (Period: March 6, 1886, Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture)
1909	Graduation from Tokyo Higher Commercial School (Saburo Kurusu, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1909, Location: Tokyo)
1914	World War I (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions (Gallipoli, Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai, Palestine, Arabia, etc.)) Service as Consul in Chicago (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1914–1919, Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States) Marriage (Saburo Kurusu, Alice Jay Little, Age: 27 years old, Period: 1914, Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States)
1919	Service as Consul-General in Manila (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1919–1922, Location: Manila, Philippines)
1922	Diplomatic Service in Chile, Italy, and Greece (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1922–1927, Location: Chile, Italy, Greece)
1927	Service as Consul-General in Hamburg (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1927–1928, Location: Hamburg, Germany)
1928	Appointment as Minister to Peru (Saburo Kurusu, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1928–1932, Location: Lima, Peru)
1932	Appointment as Director of the Commercial Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Saburo Kurusu, Age: 46 years old, Period: November 1932–1936, Location: Tokyo)
1936	Appointment as Ambassador to Belgium (Saburo Kurusu, Age: 49 years old, Period: 1936–1939, Location: Brussels, Belgium)
1939	World War II (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Europe, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, etc. (no combat occurred within Turkey)) Appointment as Ambassador to Germany (Saburo Kurusu, Age: 53 years old, Period: December 1939–1941, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1941	Dispatched to the United States as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Age: 55 years old, Period: November 1941, Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Japan-US Negotiations and Return to Japan (Saburo Kurusu, Age: 55 years old, Period: November 1941–August 1942, Location: Washington, D.C., United States; Japan)
1942	Exchange and Repatriation of Japanese and American Diplomats (Saburo Kurusu, Age: 56 years old, Period: June–August 1942, Location: Hot Springs, Virginia, United States; Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique (Present-day Maputo))
1947	Purge from Public Office (Saburo Kurusu, Age: 60 years old, Period: 1947–1951, Location: Japan)
1954	Death of Saburo Kurusu (Age: 68 years old, Period: April 7, 1954. Died at the age of 68.)
Unknown	Educational Activities at Tokyo University (Saburo Kurusu, Period: Postwar, Location: Tokyo)

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Group	List
CPC	Chen Duxiu Li Dazhao Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Zhu De Liu Shaoqi Peng Dehuai Lin Biao Deng Xiaoping Chen Yi
Korean anti-Japanese movement	Kim Il Sung Kim Won-bong Hong Beom-do Ji Cheong-cheon Yang Se-bong Choe Yong-gon Kim Chwa-chin
Pacific War	Fumimaro Konoe Hideki Tojo Yosuke Matsuoka Shigenori Togo Kantaro Suzuki Korechika Anami Isoroku Yamamoto Chuichi Nagumo Kichisaburo Nomura Saburo Kurusu Hirohito

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