Shigemitsu Aoi Diplomacy Recollection: A Student Review
『重光葵 外交回想録』(“Shigemitsu Aoi Diplomacy Recollection”), This book is written by Mamoru Shigemitsu. He was a Japanese diplomat and politician in the Empire of Japan during the WWII era. He also worked in the Japanese embassy in Washington DC before the war. The book is a collection of his diplomat experiences during WWII as well as his analysis of global relationships during that time. This book is rich in information on a lot of diplomatic activities with Japan in the WWII era and includes a lot of political confidential information that much later to be known to the world. This book is critical to understand the cause of why Japan joined the Axis Power and even become an enemy of the United States.