Shigenori Togo

Shigenori Togo (1882-1950) was Foreign Minister of Japan during the war against the Race's Conquest Fleet. He represented Japan at Big Five strategy conferences; having been the only country in that alliance which had fought neither Germany nor the Soviet Union in World War II, he was best qualified to mediate the frequent bickering between Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov at those meetings. Unlike Molotov, Ribbentrop, and Cordell Hull, Togo refused to visit Atvar aboard the 127th Emperor Hetto. After Ribbentrop described his own meeting with Atvar, Togo privately reproached him in German, saying "There is no excuse for treating with the enemy." (Togo, who had learned German from his wife, believed he was making a private aside to Ribbentrop, as, since Ribbentrop was fluent in English, German translators were not employed at Big Five meetings. However, Molotov's English translator happened to speak German, so Molotov caught the reproof, which applied to him as well as to Ribbentrop.)

Togo represented his nation at the peace conference called in Cairo in 1944. He secured a recognition of Japanese sovereignty from the Race, though he could not save the empire Japan had conquered during World War II and which the Race had overrun.