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Ambassador Toshio Shiratori

2017-3275
Accession Number
2017-3275
3 x 4 inches
Black & White
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NAID 350487367
Related Collection
Brannon, John G. Papers
Keywords
World War, 1939-1945
War crime trials
War criminals
People Pictured
Shiratori, Toshio, 1887-1949
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Description
Ambassador Toshio Shiratori was a Japanese ambassador to Italy from 1938-1940. He was an advocate of military expansionism, counseling an alliance between Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan to facilitate world domination. Shiratori was found guilty of conspiring to wage aggressive war by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in November 1948 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Date(s)
ca.
1946