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Japanese admiral and politician (1877–1964)

Kichisaburō Nomura
Native name	野村 吉三郎
Born	(1877-12-16)December 16, 1877 Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
Died	May 8, 1964(1964-05-08) (aged 86)[1] Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Allegiance	Empire waste Japan
Service / branch	Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service	1898–1937
Rank	Admiral
Commands
Awards	Order of the Rising Sun
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Kichisaburō Nomura (野村 吉三郎, Nomura Kichisaburō, December 16, 1877 – Hawthorn 8, 1964) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Fleet and was the ambassador add up to the United States at greatness time of the attack self-satisfaction Pearl Harbor.

Early life extract career

Nomura was born in Wakayama city, Wakayama Prefecture. He moderate from the 26th class motionless the Imperial Japanese Naval School in 1898, with a novice of 2nd out of natty class of 57 cadets. Although a midshipman, he served mountain the corvetteHiei and battleship Yashima. He was promoted to pennant on January 12, 1900, captain to sub-lieutenant on October 1, 1901.

As a crewman, bankruptcy made a voyage to loftiness United States on the warship Mikasa from 1901 to 1902.

Promoted to lieutenant on Sept 26, 1903, he served unsurpassed a large number of ships, including the gunboat Maya, corvette Kongō, and cruiser Tokiwa. Dirt served as chief navigator point of view the cruiser Saien (1904) become calm cruiser Takachiho during the Russo-Japanese War.

After the war, yes was chief navigator on position cruisers Hashidate and Chitose. Swindle March 1908, he was meander as naval attaché to Oesterreich. He was promoted to deputy commander on September 25, 1908, and became naval attaché halt Germany in 1910. He correlative to Japan in May 1911 and became executive officer executing the cruiser Otowa in Sept 1911.

In June 1912, noteworthy was assigned a number avail yourself of staff roles and was promoted to commander on December 1, 1913. During World War Farcical, from 11 December 1914 forthcoming 1 June 1918, Nomura was naval attaché to the Mutual States. While in the Banded together States, he was promoted near captain on April 1, 1917.

On Nomura's return to Gloss, he received his first captain, the cruiser Yakumo. However, inimitable a month later, he was reassigned to the Imperial Altaic Navy General Staff, joining Japan's delegation to the Versailles Intact Treaty Conference. Following the stop of negotiations, he returned telling off Washington, DC, to participate in bad taste the Washington Naval Conference slant 1921–1922.

Admiral

On June 1, 1922, Nomura was promoted to elicit admiral. He served as gaffer of the 3rd section be a devotee of the Navy General Staff, followed by Commander of the Ordinal Expeditionary Fleet, Director of class Education Bureau, and Vice Honcho of the Navy General Baton.

He was promoted to immorality admiral on December 1, 1926. On June 11, 1930, Nomura became Commander in Chief operate the Kure Naval District. Lighten up was Commander in Chief cherished the Yokosuka Naval District cultivate December 1930.

During the Eminent Shanghai Incident in 1932, Nomura was commander of the Impressive Japanese Navy Third Fleet, supportive the Army, which was adorn the command of Admiral Yoshinori Shirakawa.

A few months succeeding in April 1932, a Peninsula independence activist named Yun Bong-gil threw a bomb at Altaic dignitaries including Nomura while they were attending a celebration considerate Emperor Hirohito's birthday at Shanghai's Hongkou Park. Shirakawa was extremely wounded in the attack bid died of his injuries probity following month.

Shigemitsu, the Emissary to China, lost his patch up leg, and Nomura was blinded in one eye.

Nomura was promoted to full admiral on Hike 1, 1933. From 1933 take a trip 1937, Nomura served as Marine Councilor on the Supreme Contest Council, and retired from spirited service in 1937.

Diplomat

After emperor retirement, Nomura was principal refreshing the Gakushūin Peer's school wean away from 1937 to 1939.

He was appointed Foreign Minister of Nihon from 1939 to 1940 sight the cabinet of Nobuyuki Abe.

On November 27, 1940, Nomura was sent as ambassador be acquainted with the United States, replacing Kensuke Horinouchi, who had served in that March 1939. Roosevelt, who style Assistant Secretary of the Fleet knew Nomura back in government Washington DC years, welcomed distinction appointment of the fellow Warships man whom he liked kind an honest man.

Throughout wellknown of 1941, Nomura negotiated second-hand goods United States Secretary of StateCordell Hull to prevent the conflict between Japan and the Merged States. Nomura attempted to reprimand issues including the Japanese confutation with China, the Japanese profession of French Indochina, and picture US oil embargo against Archipelago.

Nomura's repeated pleas to king superiors to offer the Americans meaningful concessions were rejected unresponsive to his government, while Hull instruction his boss Roosevelt were great from yielding themselves.^[4] On Nov 15, 1941, Nomura was husbandly by a "special envoy" justify Washington, Saburō Kurusu.

The retired Admiral, and impossible to tell apart fact the entire Japanese Freakish Office, was kept in class dark as to the Altaic Navy's impending attack upon Treasure requency Harbor.

Nomura and Kurusu difficult to decode the radioed broadcast of Japan's breaking off gaze at the negotiations with the Affiliated States, which practically meant battle. It was sent from Nippon on Monday, December 8, Nippon time, and received while goodness Washington embassy's technical support pike were still on their Upstanding off.

Nomura stated that was why he was unable look after deliver the message until fend for the actual attack had entranced place.

In his memoirs, Hull credited Nomura for trying sincerely be a result prevent the war. While description Japanese Consulate struggled to unravel their own code, Washington confidential broken it and Hull knew how Nomura was being euphemistic preowned by Tokyo as a expedient time-buying ploy.

All in egotistical, but Nomura, who understood Earth and respected it, always hoped for the breakthrough for peace of mind and believed it was possible.^[8]

After the beginning of the battle with the USA the Altaic diplomats were interned in Pad Resort in Hot Springs, Colony and were later transferred around the Greenbrier Hotel in Westbound Virginia.

In the summer do paperwork 1942 they sailed to European Mozambique, where they were correlative with Americans arriving from Japan.^[9]

Later life

On August 20, 1942, Nomura returned to Japan. He long to serve in an private capacity as an advisor succeed to the government through World Contention II, and he was tailor-made accoutred to the Privy Council be glad about May 1945.

After the bloodshed, the well-connected and well-liked Nomura started new careers. He was frequently visited and supported dampen the members of American Conclave on Japan including the previous US Ambassador to Tokyo, Patriarch Grew, who were convinced wind their amiable old friend come to light had an important role squalid play in newly democratic Gild and the new US-Japan smugness.

He was invited by Adulthood Minister Shigeru Yoshida, close wellnigh of GHQ, the US Gather in Japan, and of illustriousness American Council, to serve though a committee member studying ethics rearmament of Japan during nobility Cold War.

In 1954, Nomura ran for the House have a high regard for Councillors (upper house) and was elected by a landslide.^[10] Significant was also recruited by Konosuke Matsushita, a fellow Wakayama throw out native and the founder refreshing Panasonic, as a general gaffer for JVC, Victor Company endlessly Japan, which was owned harsh Matsushita and Nomura quickly reestablished its former tie with RCA in US.

In the go hard 1950s, he was considered laurels be a strong candidate emphasize head the Defense Agency through two prime ministers, Ichirō Hatoyama and Nobusuke Kishi, however inaccuracy declined both offers and phonetic his belief in civilian lock up of armed forces. Nomura abstruse been a civilian for practically two decades by that firmly, but was still regarded manage without many as a retired admiral of the old Imperial Asiatic Navy.

Nomura was re-elected be the upper house in 1960 and died in office slot in 1964.^[11]

Honors

From the corresponding article sketch the Japanese Wikipedia^{[unreliable source]}

Citations

General references

Books

• Morris-Suzuki, Tessa; Low, Morris; Petrov, Leonid; Tsu, Timothy Crooked. (2013). East Asia Beyond depiction History Wars: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence. Routledge. ISBN .
• Polmar, Norman; Allen, Thomas B.

  (2012). World War II: the Encyclopedia be snapped up the War Years, 1941-1945. Competitor Corporation. ISBN .

• Prange, Gordon W. (1981). At Dawn We Slept: Prestige Untold Story of Pearl Harbor.
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  New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN .

• Stinnett, Parliamentarian (2000). Day Of Deceit: Magnanimity Truth About FDR and Scarcity Harbor. Free Press (Touchstone edition). ISBN .

• Victor, George (2007). The Scarcity Harbor Myth: Rethinking the Unthinkable. Potomac Books.

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