Mr, Kawagoe Sails on Recall to Japan Seventeen months after his arrival here, the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Shigeru Kawagoe, on Jan. 28 at noon bade farewell to Shanghai from the deck of the Japan-bound Shanghai Mary.
The envoy's departure was the erect sequel of the Japanese Govern~ ment's declaration on January 16 that would no longer deal with the Chinese administration, Accompanying the envoy to Japan were Mr, Hiromu Hoshida, Chan~ jeeller of the Embassy, and Mr. Nortake Yoshioka, Senior Consul.
Mr, Kawagoe was appointed Ambas~ sador in. July, 1036, in succession to Mr. Hachiro Arita, who was made Foreign Minister in'Mr, Kok! Hirota's Cabinet. Mr. Kawagoe came here from Tientsin, where he served as Consul-General During Mr. Kawogoe's tenure pf office, Sino-Japanese relations passoed through one of their darkest stages, having been marked by a series of Jantl-Sapanese terrorist acts in various parts of China,
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