Kenkichi Yoshizawa
| Kenkichi Yoshizawa | |
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| 芳沢 謙吉 | |
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| Foreign Minister of Japan | |
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In office 14 January 1932 – 26 May 1932 |
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| Monarch | Emperor Shōwa |
| Preceded by | Inukai Tsuyoshi |
| Succeeded by | Saitō Makoto |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 January 1874 Jōetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | 5 January 1965 (aged 90) Tokyo, Japan |
| Political party | Rikken Seiyūkai |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
Kenkichi Yoshizawa (芳沢 謙吉? Yoshizawa Kenkichi, 24 January 1874 – 5 January 1965) was a Japanese diplomat in the Empire of Japan, serving as 46th Foreign Minister of Japan in 1932. He was the maternal grandfather of Sadako Ogata, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1991-2001.
Yoshizawa was a native of what is now part of Joetsu city, Niigata Prefecture. He was a graduate of the English literature department of the Tokyo Imperial University and entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1899. He was assigned to the Japanese consulate in Amoy, China in 1902, and later to the consulate in Shanghai.
In 1905, Yoshizawa married the eldest daughter of politician (and future Prime Minister) Tsuyoshi Inukai, and moved to London. He continued to live in England for the next several years, eventually becoming First Secretary to the Japanese embassy. He was given the post of Consul-General in Hankou, China in 1912.
Yoshizawa served as Minister to China from 1923-1929, and was stationed at the Japanese consulates at Beijing and Tianjin. He met with Soviet Foreign Minister Lev Karakhan in Beijing in 1925 for talks which led to the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union per the Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention.
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