Takeso Shimoda
{{Short description|Japanese diplomat}}
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| term_start = 28 June 1967
| term_end = September 1970
| predecessor = Ryūji Takeuchi
| successor = Nobuhiko Ushiba
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| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
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| death_place = Tokyo, Japan
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{{Nihongo|Takeso Shimoda|下田 武三|Shimoda Takezō|3 April 1907 – 22 January 1995}} was a Japanese diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States and a justice in the Supreme Court of Japan.
Career
Shimoda served as vice foreign minister (a bureaucratic appointment) within the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
He was involved in the revision of the 1951 Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.{{cite news |title=Takezo Shimoda |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Takezo-Shimoda-3047813.php |accessdate=28 November 2019 |work=SFGate |agency=The Associated Press |date=23 January 1995}}
Shimoda served as ambassador to the United States from 28 June 1967 until September 1970.{{cite news |title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XIX, Part 2, Japan, 1969-1972 - Office of the Historian |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v19p2/persons#p_ST_1 |accessdate=28 November 2019 |work=history.state.gov}} He was a signatory of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on 3 February 1970.{{cite journal |title=The Department of State Bulletin |date=1970 |volume=62 |page=228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MkXylAVum8C |accessdate=28 November 2019 |publisher=Office of Public Communication, Bureau of Public Affairs |language=en}}
From 12 January 1971 until 2 April 1977, he served as a justice in the Supreme Court of Japan.{{cite web |title=裁判所｜Former Justices |url=http://www.courts.go.jp/english/about/justice/justices/index.html |website=www.courts.go.jp |accessdate=28 November 2019}}
Baseball career
He was commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball from March 1979 until 1985. His predecessor, Toshi Kaneko, resigned after a trade scandal.{{cite news |last1=Nakashima |first1=Leslie |title=Japanese baseball commissioner Takeso Shimoda has established himself as... |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/09/08/Japanese-baseball-commissioner-Takeso-Shimoda-has-established-himself-as/5490400305600/ |accessdate=28 November 2019 |work=United Press International |date=8 September 1982 |language=en}}
Personal life
Shimoda had a wife, Mitsue, a son, and two daughters.
Shimoda died from heart failure on 22 January 1995 in Tokyo.{{cite news |title=Takezo Shimoda, Former Envoy, 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/23/world/takezo-shimoda-former-envoy-87.html |accessdate=28 November 2019 |work=The New York Times |agency=The Associated Press |date=23 January 1995}}
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