The list below identifies the key people in this story and the positions they held prior to December 7, 1941. Japanese names follow the Japanese convention of surname first and given name second. In some cases, there is more than one spelling in the English translation of a Japanese name. In each case like that, I have used the name used by Joseph Grew. As an example, Konoye Fumimaro’s name is sometimes spelled Konoe. However, Grew always referred to him as Konoye, and that is the spelling I have used. In other situations, the spelling of a place has changed. As one example, Nanking is now Nanjing. In each case like that, I have used the spelling that Grew used.
Joseph W. Ballantine |
Head of Japan Desk, Far Eastern Division, Department of State |
Sir Robert Craigie |
Great Britain’s ambassador to Japan |
Edward (Ned) S. Crocker |
First Secretary, United States Embassy in Tokyo |
Eugene H. Dooman |
Counselor, United States Embassy in Tokyo |
James Drought |
Father and Vicar General of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America in Maryknoll, New York |
John K. Emmerson |
Third Secretary, United States Embassy in Tokyo (and, beginning in October 1941, staff, Far Eastern Division, State Department) |
Anita Grew English |
Daughter of Joseph C. Grew |
Robert Fearey |
Private Secretary to Joseph C. Grew (April 1941–) |
Marshall Green |
Private Secretary to Joseph C. Grew (October 1939–March 1941) |
Alice Perry Grew |
Wife of Joseph C. Grew |
Maxwell M. Hamilton |
Chief, Far Eastern Division, State Department |
Hara Yoshimichi |
President, Privy Council, Japan |
Waldo Heinrichs |
Author, United States Ambassador: Joseph C. Grew and the Development of the United States Diplomatic Tradition |
Hiranuma Kiichiro |
Home Minister, Japan (July 1940-July 1941) and then Minister without Portfolio (July 1941–) |
Hirohito Michinomiya |
Emperor, Japan (and often referred to only as Hirohito) |
Stanley K. Hornbeck |
Political Relations Adviser, State Department |
Cordell Hull |
Secretary of State |
Harold L. Ickes |
Secretary of the Interior |
Iwakuro Hideo |
Special Envoy of Japanese Army |
Kase Toshikazu |
Secretary to Foreign Minister Matsuoka and then Secretary to Foreign Minister Togo (and Chief of the First Section in the American Bureau) |
Kido Koichi |
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, Japan |
Frank Knox |
Secretary of the Navy |
Konoye Fumimaro |
Prime Minister of Japan (June 1937-January 1939, July 1940–October 1941) |
Lord Halifax |
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Great Britain’s ambassador to the United States |
Elsie Grew Lyon |
Daughter of Joseph C. Grew |
George Marshall |
Chief of Staff, United States Army |
Matsuoka Yosuke |
Foreign Minister, Japan (July 1940–July 1941) |
Lilla Grew Moffat |
Daughter of Joseph C. Grew |
Nagano Osami |
Chief of General Staff, Japanese Navy |
Oikawa Koshiro |
Minister of Navy, Japan (July 1940–October 1941) |
Nomura Kichisaburo |
Japan’s Ambassador to the United States |
Kurusu Saburo |
Japan’s Special Envoy to the United States |
Max Waldo Schmidt (Bishop) |
Third Secretary, United States Embassy in Tokyo, then staff, Far Eastern Division, State Department (July 1941–) |
Ricardo Rivera Schreiber |
Peruvian Minister to Japan and China |
Shimada Shigetaro |
Navy Minister, Japan (October 1941–) |
Henri Smith-Hutton |
Naval Attaché, United States Embassy in Tokyo |
Harold Stark |
Chief of Operations, United States Navy |
Henry L. Stimson |
Secretary of State under President Hoover and Secretary of War under President Roosevelt (July 1940–) |
Sugiyama Hajime |
Chief of General Staff, Japanese Army |
Togo Shigineori |
Foreign Minister, Japan (October 1941–) |
Tojo Hidecki |
Minister of War (July 1940–October 1941) and Prime Minister of Japan (October 1941–) |
Toyama Mitsuru |
Head of Black Dragon Society |
Toyoda Teijiro |
Foreign Minister, Japan (July 1941–October 1941) |
Ushiba Tomohiko |
Private Secretary to Prime Minister Konoye |
Wakasugi Kaname |
Minister-Counselor, Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC |
James Walsh |
Bishop and Superior General of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America in Mary- knoll, New York |
Wikawa Tadao |
Former Japanese bank official and unofficial Japanese representative in Washington, DC |
Summer Welles |
Under Secretary of State |
Yamamoto Isoroku |
Admiral, Japanese Navy |