Jidai No Ichi Men Togo Shigenori Taisen Gaiko No Shuki (Chuko Bunko)

[Machine Translation] The author, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during two decisive phases of the war, from the outbreak of World War I when he was appointed as a diplomat to the end of World War II, has written a first-rate diplomatic record of the events and problems he personally witnessed and was involved in, from the outbreak of World War I to the end of World War II. This is a first-rate record of his diplomatic activities from the outbreak of World War I when he became a diplomat to the end of World War II.

太平洋戦争の開戦阻止に渾身の努力を続けた東条内閣時代、戦争終結をめぐり阿南陸相と激論をたたかわせた鈴木内閣時代、開戦と終戦という二度の決定的局面で外務大臣を務めた著者が、外交官に任官した第一次大戦勃発の頃より第二次大戦終結に至るまで、自ら直接見聞し、関与した事件・諸問題等について克明に綴った第一級の外交記録である。