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This book examines Sato Naotake’s remarkable and long career at the crossroads of Imperial Japan, emphasizing his integrity and realistic approach to diplomacy, which were particularly evident in his role in maintaining the Neutrality Pact with the Soviet Union and in promoting the United Nations.

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Greg Gubler’s biography of Sato Naotake, one of the prominent Japanese diplomats of the past century, is a thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume that presents a sympathetic portrait of its main subject. Sato was a Japanese diplomat who spent over three decades working in Japan’s embassies abroad, served as foreign minister for three months in 1937, and spent three unrewarding years as Japan’s ambassador to the USSR in the latter half of World War II. This hefty volume is remarkable because few of Sato’s contemporaries even those in arguably more consequential positions have received full biographical treatment in English. This state of knowledge is, thankfully, changing, helped in part by recent translations of prominent and highly readable biographical surveys of the leading lights of Japanese interwar diplomacy. [This] biography deserves to be read by both students and practitioners of history, as well as the general reading public curious about the behind-the-scenes workings of Japanese imperial diplomacy. * Pacific Affairs *

Greg Gubler's biography of Sato Naotake, one of the prominent Japanese diplomats of the past century, is a thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume that presents a sympathetic portrait of its main subject. Sato was a Japanese diplomat who spent over three decades working in Japan's embassies abroad, served as foreign minister for three months in 1937, and spent three unrewarding years as Japan's ambassador to the USSR in the latter half of World War II. This hefty volume is remarkable because few of Sato's contemporaries even those in arguably more consequential positions have received full biographical treatment in English. This state of knowledge is, thankfully, changing, helped in part by recent translations of prominent and highly readable biographical surveys of the leading lights of Japanese interwar diplomacy. [This] biography deserves to be read by both students and practitioners of history, as well as the general reading public curious about the behind-the-scenes workings of Japanese imperial diplomacy. -- ""Pacific Affairs""

Greg Gubler's biography of Sato Naotake, one of the prominent Japanese diplomats of the past century, is a thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume that presents a sympathetic portrait of its main subject. Sato was a Japanese diplomat who spent over three decades working in Japan's embassies abroad, served as foreign minister for three months in 1937, and spent three unrewarding years as Japan's ambassador to the USSR in the latter half of World War II. This hefty volume is remarkable because few of Sato's contemporaries even those in arguably more consequential positions have received full biographical treatment in English. This state of knowledge is, thankfully, changing, helped in part by recent translations of prominent and highly readable biographical surveys of the leading lights of Japanese interwar diplomacy. [This] biography deserves to be read by both students and practitioners of history, as well as the general reading public curious about the behind-the-scenes workings of Japanese imperial diplomacy.

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Greg Gubler is retired as professor and university archivist at Brigham Young University at Hawaii.

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