Baron Kijūrō Shidehara was a pre–World War II Japanese diplomat and politician. He was prime minister of Japan from 1945 to 1946 and a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II. He was the last Japanese Prime Minister who was a member of the peerage (kazoku). His wife, Masako, was the fourth daughter of Iwasaki Yatarō, founder of the Mitsubishi zaibatsu.
Kijūrō Shidehara
From left to right: Robert Woods Bliss, Robert Coontz, Kanji Kato, Kunishige Tanaka, Andre Brewster at the Washington Conference on 24 October 1921.
Left to right; Baron Kijuro Shidehara, Admiral Katō Tomosaburō, Prince Iesato Tokugawa on 3 November 1921, to attend the Washington Naval Conference.
Shidehara on the cover of the 12 October 1931 issue of Time magazine
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