Saburō Kurusu

Saburō Kurusu (来栖 三郎, Kurusu Saburō, March 6, 1886- April 7, 1954) was a Japanese career diplomat. He is remembered now as an envoy who tried to negotiate peace and understanding with the United States while Japan was secretly preparing the attack on Pearl Harbor.As Imperial Japan's ambassador to Germany from 1939 to November 1941, he signed the Tripartite Pact along with the foreign ministers of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on September 27, 1940.

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Saburō Kurusu
Birth dateMarch 06, 1886
Birth place
Japan , Yokohama
Date of deathApril 07, 1954
Place of death
Japan

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