Tientsin incident
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The Tientsin incident was an international incident created by a blockade by the Imperial Japanese Army's Japanese North China Area Army of the British settlements in the north China treaty port of Ti
British soldiers behind the barbed wire barricade erected by the Japanese around the British and French concessions in Tientsin in June 1939
Barrier erected by Japanese troops around the British and French concessions of Tientsin in the summer of 1939
Mamoru Shigemitsu
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Mamoru Shigemitsu was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs three times during and after World War II and as Deputy Prime Minister. As a civilian plenipotentiary
Tientsin incident
…Tientsin crisis highlighted the gap between the foreign policy of Japan's civilian government, as expressed through the Japanese ambassador to Britain, Mamoru Shigemitsu, who attempted to defuse the situation through negotiation, and the Japanese Army, the commander of the North China Army, Field Marshal Hajime Sugiyama…
Shigemitsu in 1945
Hongkew Park, Shanghai, after the bombing in which Shigemitsu lost his leg on April 29, 1932
Shigemitsu (with cane) on board USS Missouri, September 2, 1945
Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender at the end of World War II, accompanied by Toshikazu Kase (right).