Editing Mamoru Shigemitsu (section)

==Early life and career==
Shigemitsu was born in what is now part of the city of [[Bungo-ōno, Ōita|Bungo-ōno]], [[Ōita Prefecture]], Japan. He graduated from the Law School of [[Tokyo Imperial University]] in 1911 and immediately entered the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].<ref name="Hoover">{{Cite book|last=Hoover|first=William D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jyx1DwAAQBAJ|title=Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan|publisher=[[Rowman and Littlefield]]|year=2018|location=Lanham, MD|page=351|isbn=978-1538111567}}</ref> After [[World War I]], he served in numerous overseas diplomatic assignments, including in Germany and the United Kingdom and briefly as consul at the Japanese consulate in [[Seattle, Washington]], United States.