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SHIRATORI, Toshio (Foreign Office Adviser and Ambassador to Italy) f. 2 – Def. Doc. No. 1621 (SHIRATORI, Document No. 20-A): photostat of English translation “Copy of Page 10 of the Contributions Accounts-Book of the Japan Foreign Affairs Association, The Publishing Office of the Contemporary Japan,” 3 December 1946; Def. Doc. No. 1622 (SHIRATORI, Document No. 20-B): photostat of English translation “Copy of Page 14 of the Contributions Accounts-Book of the Japan Foreign Affairs Association, The Publishing Office of the Contemporary Japan,” 3 December 1946; Def. Doc. No. 1408: IMTFE, Charles B. Caudle, Counsel for SHIRATORI to A. Comyns Carr, 25 February 1947; Doc. No. 2159: excerpt of Interrogation of SHIRATORI, 20 March 1946; notes; Doc. 2906: Extracts from Interrogation of SHIRATORI, 19 March 1946 [2 c.]; Def. Doc. #2919: translation of “The Letter Addressed to Foreign Minister YOSHIDA from SHIRATORI, Toshio, 10 December 1945”; Shiratori “briefed statements”; curriculum vitae; typescript translations of articles in

 File — Container: Box 23

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection was organized by Richard J. DeMartino during his tenure as one of the "historian advisors" to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East between 1946-1948.

The files contain excerpts of official documents, documents and DeMartino's handwritten notes. Excerpts from the Diary of Marquis Kōichi Kido are present in each file, as if DeMartino was using Kido's notes as a guide to the research he was working on. There are also many excerpts from Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States Japan: 1931-1941, Washinton: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943, 2 v.



The collection was donated to the Law Library in the Summer of 2017. Prof. Jamie Sedwick of Acadia University in Nova Scotia contacted the Special Collections Department to alert us of the existence of the papers and asked if we were interested in them. The library immediately contacted Ms. Kathleen O’Shea, Mr. DeMartino's wife and after some negotiations the papers arrive to Charlottesville in September of 2017.

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1936 - 1948

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English and Japanese

Extent

From the Collection: 14 Cubic Feet (34 archival boxes, plus some oversized items.)

Repository Details

Part of the Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Arthur J. Morris Law Library
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