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Kurusu

American  
[koo-roo-soo] / kʊˈru sʊ /

noun

  1. Saburo 1888–1954, Japanese diplomat.


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When Nomura and Kurusu delivered the fourteenth part of the terminating message, he told the secretary “to receive their reply formally and coolly bow them out.”

From Time ● Dec. 7, 2016

It was a strained Saburo Kurusu who carried the news to Cordell Hull that his task was to keep talking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Near by, Special Ambassador Kurusu was at work on Tokyo's long final note, which Secretary Hull an hour or two later would describe as false and infamous.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saburo Kurusu, "peace" envoy to the U.S. when Pearl Harbor was attacked, is now "busily engaged in tilling his garden" in the mountain town of Karuizawa, said Radio Tokyo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although Suzuki had never been informed, he was convinced that neither Nomura nor Kurusu knew that the Japanese Navy would strike during the Washington negotiations.

From Time Magazine Archive

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