Background
Yakichiro Suma was born on September 9, 1892 in Akita Prefecture, Japan.
1937
JAPANESE DIPLOMAT YAKICHIRO SUMA PRESS PHOTO
弥吉郎 須磨
Yakichiro Suma was born on September 9, 1892 in Akita Prefecture, Japan.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Chuo University in 1919.
Yakichiro Suma joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1919). He was appointed the Consul-General of Nanking in 1933 to conduct negotiations with Republic of China National Government.
Later, he served as Director-General of Intelligence Bureau in 1939 and as envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary in Spain in 1940, among other posts.
He was detained suspected of being a class-A war criminal and purged from public office in 1946. He was released in 1948 and after the termination of the purge in 1951, and he was elected a member of the House of Representatives in 1953 (elected twice in total).
He served as the chief director of Japan Branch of UNESCO.
Yakichiro Suma was a member of Liberal Democratic Party and chief of its information and publicity departments. He was elected to House of Representatives twice on a liberal ticket.