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was a Japanese civil servant and career diplomat. During World War II he was a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official. Kase was born in Chiba, Japan. After passing his Foreign Service Examination in 1925 he left Tokyo Higher Commercial College (later Hitotsubashi University)〔(USS Missouri.com )〕 and attended Amherst College and Harvard as a Research Fellow, graduating in 1927. He took up diplomatic posts in both Berlin and London before returning to Tokyo where he was posted to the North America desk of the Japanese Foreign Office. He was on duty on the weekend of the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941.〔Brooke, James. (2003-11-08) 'Toshikazu Kase: A Japanese Witness to History Adroitly Survived It', ''New York Times''. ()〕 Kase was present as part of the Japanese delegation on board USS ''Missouri'' for the signing of the treaty of surrender in 1945.〔 In 1950 Kase published a book which gave an account of the war from a Japanese perspective.〔''Journey to the Missouri'', Kase, Toshikazu & Rowe, David Nelson, Eds, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1950. ISBN 0-208-00747-4 (Synopsis from Digital Library for Nuclear Issues )〕 In 1955 he became Japan's first ambassador to the United Nations.〔(Britannica Book of the Year 2005 )〕 He died, aged 101 years, in Kamakura of heart failure.〔Obituary: "Toshikazu Kase, 101, Japanese Diplomat". ''New York Times'', 2 June 2004, p 10 (NYT Archive )〕〔Pearson, Natalie Obiko, "Toshikazu Kase, Japanese Diplomat in War, Peace". ''Chicago Sun-Times'', 1 June 2004 ()〕 ==See also== * Hideaki Kase * Shun'ichi Kase * Japanese nationalism 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toshikazu Kase」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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