Japan's wartime foreign minister mulled ending China war

Japan's wartime foreign minister mulled ending China war

TOKYO, Japan - A page from among classified telegrams circulated among Japanese diplomats during World War II is photographed on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents newly discovered by a relative of a former Japanese ambassador showed that then Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

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