Office of the Historian

894.002/472: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, August 15, 1941—4 p.m.
[Received August 15—8:48 a.m.]

1243. An official of the Foreign Office told a member of the Embassy staff that Hiranuma’s89 assailant was a member of a “radical” organization entitled the Mitsubikai and that the motive for the attack was undoubtedly resentment against Hiranuma’s efforts to bring about an adjustment of Japanese-American relations.

Grew
  1. Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Japanese Vice Premier and Minister without Portfolio.↩