Shigenori Togo

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Shigenori Togo

(Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
: ???, Hanja

Hanja

Hanja is the Korean language name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese language and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation....
: ???, Park Moo-Duk, 10 December 1882 - 23 July 1950) was Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
at both the start and the end of the Japanese-American conflict during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. He also served as Minister of Greater East Asia in 1941, and assumed the same position, renamed the Minister for Greater East Asia, in 1945.

Throughout the war, Togo was among those who doubted that Japan could succeed in a war with the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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(Korean

Korean language

Hanja

Japan

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United States

Potsdam Declaration

The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender was a statement issued on July 26 for the surrender of Japanese forces, 1945, by United States President of the United States Harry S....
which, he felt, contained the best conditions for peace Japan could hope to be offered. Up until the last, he hoped for favorable terms from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
. At Togo's suggestion, no official response was made to the Declaration at first, though a censored version was released to the Japanese public, while Togo waited to hear from Moscow. Unfortunately, many Allied leaders interpreted this silence as a rejection of the Declaration, and so bombing was allowed to continue.

Togo was one of the Cabinet Ministers who advocated Japanese surrender in the summer of 1945, and several days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear warfares near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of President of the United States Harry S....
, this action was finally taken.

When the war against the United States was decided, he disliked pressing the responsibility of the failure of diplomacy against others, and signed the document of the declaration of war by his responsibility. He became the defendant of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East , also known as the Tokyo Trial, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal or simply as the Tribunal, was convened to criminal procedure the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of crimes: "Class A" , "Class B" , and "Class C" , committed during World War II....
, as a war criminal for that. He was sentenced to 20 years for war crime charges and died of sickness from his confinement in prison.

Togo was of Korean descent, and his original surname was Park

Park (Korean name)

Park or Pak is a common Korean name, whose origin goes back to King Hyeokgeose of Silla, the founder of the Silla dynasty in 57 BCE.When written with a Chinese character , it uses a character that means "sincere," "simple" and "unadorned." When the case is based on the surname, it means plain....
, a Korean surname but his father reportedly purchased the surname, Togo, when Shigenori was five.

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