Kichisaburo Nomura

Kichisaburo Nomura was an Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and diplomat who served as Ambassador to the United States prior to the Pacific War. He engaged in grueling negotiations with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull to avert military conflict between the two nations. However, domestic political shifts and Japan's alliance with the Axis powers severely undermined his efforts. Delayed decryption at the embassy caused the final diplomatic notification to be delivered after the Pearl Harbor attack began. Post-war, he served in the House of Councillors and worked to rebuild U.S.-Japan relations.

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1877	Birth of Kichisaburo Nomura (Period: December 16, 1877, Location: Nishikagidate-cho, Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture)
1896	Adoption into the Nomura Family (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1896, Location: Wakayama Prefecture)
1898	Graduation from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 20 years old, Period: December 1898, Location: Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture)
1901	Sailing the Battleship Mikasa Back to Japan (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1901–1902, Location: Sea Route from Great Britain to Japan)
1908	Stationing in Austria and Germany (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1908–1911, Location: Austria, Germany)
1914	World War I (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions (Gallipoli, Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai, Palestine, Arabia, etc.)) Appointment as Naval Attaché to the United States Embassy (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 36 years old, Period: December 1914–August 1918, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1921	Participation in the Washington Naval Conference (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1921–1922, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1932	Appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Third Fleet (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 54 years old, Period: February 1932, Location: Shanghai, China) Shanghai Tenchosetsu Bombing Incident (Hongkou Park Bombing Incident, Age: 54 years old, Period: April 29, 1932, Location: Hongkou Park (Present-day Luxun Park), Shanghai, China)
1933	Promotion to Admiral of the Navy (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 55 years old, Period: March 1933, Location: Japan)
1937	Second Sino-Japanese War (Age: 59 years old, Period: 1937–1945, Location: Various regions in China, especially North China, Central China, and South China) Appointment as President of Gakushuin (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 59 years old, Period: 1937–1939, Location: Tokyo)
1939	World War II (Age: 61 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Europe, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, etc. (no combat occurred within Turkey)) Appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 61 years old, Period: September 1939–January 1940, Location: Tokyo)
1941	Japan-US Negotiations (Age: 63 years old, Period: February–December 1941, Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Appointment as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 63 years old, Period: February 1941, Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Continuation of Japan-US Negotiations and Return to Japan (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 63 years old, Period: February 1941–August 1942, Location: Washington, D.C., United States; Japan) Attack on Pearl Harbor and Outbreak of the War Between Japan and the US (Age: 63 years old, Period: December 7, 1941 (December 8, Japan Time), Location: Pearl Harbor, Oahu Island, Hawaii, United States)
1944	Appointment as Privy Councillor (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 66 years old, Period: May 1944–June 1946, Location: Tokyo)
1953	Appointment as President of Victor Company of Japan (Kichisaburo Nomura, Age: 75 years old, Period: March 1953, Location: Tokyo)
1954	Election to the House of Councillors (Age: 76 years old, Period: June 1954–May 1964, Location: Wakayama Prefecture Electoral District, Japan)
1964	Death of Kichisaburo Nomura (Age: 86 years old, Period: May 8, 1964. Died in Tokyo.)
Unknown	Marriage (Kichisaburo Nomura, Details Unknown, Period: Details Unknown, Location: Details Unknown)

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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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