Saburo Kurusu

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Saburo Kurusu, (1886-1954) was a Japanese career diplomat. As Imperial Japan's ambassador to Germany from 1939 to November 1941, he signed the Tripartite Pact along with Adolf Hitler and representative of Fascist Italy on September 27, 1940. As "special envoy" to Washington from November 16, 1941, he and Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura were negotiating with United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941. He was interned in the United States from December 1941 to June 1942. He returned to Japan and after the war became a professor at Tokyo University.

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