Hiroshi Saito (diplomat)
[3] Saito worked to maintain good relations with the U.S, even as further global condemnation for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria was mounting.Almost no one in the United States remained sympathetic to Japan following these two situations and Saito's career was then considered a failure.[1] Upon his death, still with Ambassador rank, his body was returned to Japan via the heavy cruiser USS Astoria under the command of Captain Richmond K. Turner.Hiroshi Saitō was the son (as described by historian Walter A. McDougall) of a humble school teacher in a provincial Japanese town in 1886.He attended Peers College and Tokyo University and then officially joined the foreign service, serving as a junior attaché in Washington and London.
