Editing Mamoru Shigemitsu (section)

{{Short description|Japanese diplomat and politician (1887–1957)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name             = Mamoru Shigemitsu
| native_name      = {{nobold|重光 葵}}
| native_name_lang = ja
| image            = Shigemitsu Mamoru.jpg
| image_size       = 220px
| caption          = Shigemitsu in 1945
| office           = [[Deputy Prime Minister of Japan]]
| primeminister    = [[Ichirō Hatoyama]]
| term_start       = 10 December 1954
| term_end         = 23 December 1956
| predecessor      = [[Taketora Ogata]]
| successor        = Mitsujiro Ishii
| office2          = [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
| primeminister2   = [[Ichirō Hatoyama]]
| term_start2      = 10 December 1954
| term_end2        = 23 December 1956
| predecessor2     = [[Katsuo Okazaki]]
| successor2       = [[Nobusuke Kishi]]
| primeminister3   = [[Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni|Naruhiko Higashikuni]]
| term_start3      = 17 August 1945
| term_end3        = 15 September 1945
| predecessor3     = [[Shigenori Togo]]
| successor3       = [[Shigeru Yoshida]]
| primeminister4   = [[Hideki Tojo]]
| term_start4      = 20 April 1943
| term_end4        = 7 April 1945
| predecessor4     = [[Masayuki Tani]]
| successor4       = [[Shigenori Togo]]
| office5          = [[Ministry of Greater East Asia|Minister of Greater East Asia]]
| primeminister5   = Naruhiko Higashikuni
| term_start5      = 17 August 1945
| term_end5        = 25 August 1945
| predecessor5     = [[Shigenori Tōgō]]
| successor5       = ''Office abolished''
| primeminister6   = [[Kuniaki Koiso]]
| term_start6      = 22 July 1944
| term_end6        = 7 April 1945
| predecessor6     = [[Kazuo Aoki]]
| successor6       = [[Kantarō Suzuki]]
| office7          = Member of the [[House of Representatives (Japan)|House of Representatives]]
| constituency7    = [[Ōita 2nd district (1947–1993)|Ōita 2nd]]
| term_start7      = 2 October 1952
| term_end7        = 26 January 1957
| predecessor7     = 
| successor7       = 
| office8          = Member of the [[House of Peers (Japan)|House of Peers]]
| term_start8      = 15 August 1945
| term_end8        = 29 August 1945 {{hanging indent|[[Kazoku|Hereditary peerage]]}}
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1887|7|29|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Bungo-ōno, Ōita]], [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1957|1|26|1887|7|29|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[Yugawara, Kanagawa]], Japan
| party            = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] (1955–1957)
| otherparty       = [[Independent politician|Independent]] (before 1952)<br>[[Kaishintō]] (1952–1954)<br>[[Japan Democratic Party|JDP]] (1954–1955)
| alma_mater       = [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]]
}} 
[[File:虹口公园爆炸后现场.jpg|thumb|[[Hongkew Park]], [[Shanghai]], after the bombing in which Shigemitsu lost his leg on April 29, 1932.]]
[[Image:Surrender of Japan - USS Missouri.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Shigemitsu (with cane) on board {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}}, September 2, 1945]]
[[Image:Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the Second World War.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Shigemitsu signs the [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945)|Japanese Instrument of Surrender]] at the end of [[World War II]], accompanied by [[Toshikazu Kase]] (right).]]
{{Nihongo|'''Mamoru Shigemitsu'''|重光 葵|Shigemitsu Mamoru|July 29, 1887 &ndash; January 26, 1957}} was a Japanese diplomat who served as [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] three times during and after [[World War II]] and as [[Deputy Prime Minister of Japan|Deputy Prime Minister]]. As a civilian [[plenipotentiary]] representing the Japanese government, Shigemitsu cosigned the [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender]] on board the battleship {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}} on September 2, 1945.