Background
Koto Matsudaira was born in Tokyo on 5 February 1903, the son of a shipowner.
(A Diplomat's Life is a collection of the memoirs of Koto ...)
A Diplomat's Life is a collection of the memoirs of Koto Matsudaira taken from his own manuscript notes and diaries, written towards the end of his life, and posthumously translated from Japanese to English with the assistance of the adviser to the family in Japan, Mr Akira Irie.
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康東 松平
Koto Matsudaira was born in Tokyo on 5 February 1903, the son of a shipowner.
Koto Matsudaira attended high school in Tokyo and then studied law at Tokyo Imperial University. Although he entered foreign service in 1926, he attained an academic degree in 1927. He then went to Paris where he received a Juris Doctor in 1931. That same year, he also obtained a diploma from the École Libre des Sciences Politiques.
Matsudaira first joined the League of Nations as a Japanese delegate to Geneva in 1932. Two years later, he was sent to the contract department of the Japanese Foreign Office until early 1941. Matsudaira then served as the first secretary at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. where his uncle Saburō Kurusu also worked. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was interned there along with Kurusu until being repatriated to Japan. In 1944, he went to the Embassy of Japan in Moscow to serve as the first secretary. He helped negotiate a draft of the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951.
Koto Matsudaira was appointed as the ambassador to Canada in March 1954, serving in that capacity until May 1957. He was then appointed as a Permanent Representative to the United Nations in May 1957 until May 1961.
(A Diplomat's Life is a collection of the memoirs of Koto ...)