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Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ichihara (L), a niece of the wife of a late Japanese diplomat, shows the bounded volume of classified diplomatic telegrams from World War II that she found while sorting out belongings of a deceased relative in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents secretly kept by Ryuji Takeuchi, Japan's ambassador to the United States after the war, shows that Japan's wartime 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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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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File photo of Japan's WWII foreign minister Shigemitsu

TOKYO, Japan - An undated file photo of Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's foreign minister during World War II. Classified telegrams discovered by a relative of a former Japanese diplomat showed that Shigemitsu in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

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Japanese surrender delegation aboard the USS Missouri

The Japanese surrender delegation aboard the USS Missouri, 31st August 1945. All the US naval personnel are wearing 'Class B' uniforms on purpose. The surrender officially ended World War Two. Standing in front are: Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (wearing top hat) and General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff. Behind them are three representatives each of the Foreign Ministry, the Army and the Navy. They include, in middle row, left to right: Major General Yatsuji Nagai - Army, Katsuo Okazaki - Foreign Ministry, Rear Admiral Tadatoshi Tomioka - Navy, Toshikazu Kase, Foreign Ministry and Lieutenant General Suichi Miyakazi - Army. Date: 1945

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A History of 1955

junior high school students in Matsuyama overturned on a boat, many killed, 34 middle school girls drowned in a big wave. A bank robbery in Kitahama, Osaka, the kidnapping of Tony Tani's eldest son, the mambo craze, a new trend in youth clothing, the rise of the singing movement, a bumper rice harvest, a new 200-meter breaststroke record for Furukawa of Nihon University, Japan-U.S. swimming, the Boston Marathon. Hamamura's victory in the Boston Marathon, withdrawal from China and the Soviet Union, Self-Defense Forces exercises, establishment of the Airborne Corps, the first Honest John, the struggle against bases, sit-in in Mt. Sit-in, Forced surveying, Bandung Conference (Indonesia), Geneva Conference (U.S., France, U.K., USSR), Conference against atomic and hydrogen bombs, Japan-China trade agreement, Soviet delegation, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu visited U.S., Communist Party Announcement of the death of General Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda. *Filming date unknown; release date: December 31, 1955.

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Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ichihara (L), a niece of the wife of a late Japanese diplomat, shows the bounded volume of classified diplomatic telegrams from World War II that she found while sorting out belongings of a deceased relative in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents secretly kept by Ryuji Takeuchi, Japan's ambassador to the United States after the war, shows that Japan's wartime foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China. (Kyodo)

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File photo of Japan's WWII foreign minister Shigemitsu

TOKYO, Japan - An undated file photo of Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's foreign minister during World War II. Classified telegrams discovered by a relative of a former Japanese diplomat showed that Shigemitsu in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China. (Kyodo)

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U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Allison visits Foreign Min

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Allison (L) visits the Foreign Ministry to exchange official documents with Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu regarding the compensation over a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. The photo was taken on Jan. 4, 1955. (Kyodo)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Dulles and Japanese Foreign

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of State John Dulles (R) talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu about a territorial dispute between Japan and the Soviet Union. The place of the photo is unknown. The photo was taken on Aug. 29, 1955. (Kyodo)