Sadao Saburi

Japanese: 佐分利貞夫 - さぶりさだお

1879-1929 (Meiji 12-Showa 4)
A diplomat during the Meiji and Taisho periods. Born in Tokyo, he graduated from the Department of Law at Tokyo Imperial University in 1905. He passed the diplomatic examination in the same year. He served as Director-General of the Trade Bureau and Director-General of the Treaty Bureau, and in 1921 he became an embassy counselor and was a plenipotentiary attendant at the Washington Conference. He then toured both North and South China, and in 1929 he was selected by Foreign Minister Shidehara Kijuro to become envoy to China, but in November of the same year he committed suicide in Hakone while returning to Japan to prepare for negotiations to revise the Treaty of Relations with Japan (there is also a theory that he was murdered). He understood China, which was in the transitional period from the warlord era to the nationalist government, and was expected to have a bright future as a foreign ministry bureaucrat who placed importance on economic diplomacy.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1879‐1929(明治12‐昭和4)
明治･大正期の外交官。東京に生まれ，1905年東京帝国大学法律学科を卒業。同年外交官試験に合格する。通商局長，条約局長を歴任して，21年大使館参事官となり，ワシントン会議全権随員となる。その後南北中国を視察し，29年外相幣原喜重郎の抜擢で中国公使となったが同年11月日華条約改訂交渉準備のため帰国中，箱根で自殺した(他殺説もある)。軍閥期から国民政府への過渡期にある中国を理解し，経済外交を重視する外務官僚として将来を期待されていた。

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