Setsuzo Sawada

Background

Setsuzo Sawada was born in 1884 in Tottori (now Iwami), Japan.

Education

Setsuzo Sawada graduated from Political Science Section, Tokyo University (1909).

Career

Setsuzo Sawada entered the diplomatic service and became a consul, counselor, secretary, chief of the Telegraph and Translation section. He was appointed counselor in the embassy in Washington (1924), then consul general in New York and chief of the Japan Secretariat of the League of Nations (1930).

In the subsequent world disarmament conference, he often was the chief Japanese delegate. Ambassador to Brazil (1934-1939). He served as an adviser to the cabinet of Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki late in the war.

After the war was director of the Tokyo Foreign Language School and president of Tottori University (June 1957).

Religion

As a Roman Catholic, he made appeals to the Vatican in order to put an early end to World War II.

Politics

As a pacifist, he opposed Japan's 1933 withdrawal from the League of Nations.

Connections

One of his brothers served as Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was married to social worker Miki Sawada, while another brother was an industrialist.

Brother:

Renzo Sawada