Shirasu jiro biography

          Jirō Shirasu (白洲 次郎, Shirasu Jirō, 17 February – 28 November ) was a..

          Shirasu Jirō was an able and influential Japanese who had studied at Cambridge in the s when Britain and Japan continued to have friendly relations.

        1. Shirasu Jirō was an able and influential Japanese who had studied at Cambridge in the s when Britain and Japan continued to have friendly relations.
        2. Jirō Shirasu was a Japanese businessman and official.
        3. Jirō Shirasu (白洲 次郎, Shirasu Jirō, 17 February – 28 November ) was a.
        4. Jirō Shirasu was born in Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture, on 17 February , the second son of Bunpei Shirasu, a wealthy businessman.
        5. The private and public lives of Shirasu Jiro, an English-educated bureaucrat who served as the go-between for post-World War 2 Japanese Prime Minister.

          6. The Man Who Wore Bespoke Suits And Jeans


          It’s said on a few places online that Jiro Shirasu was the first person in Japan to wear jeans, but that’s probably not true.

          Jeans came to Japan by way of American GIs, who imported second hand Lees and Levi’s and sold them to the fashionable youth. It’s more likely that the first person to wear jeans in Japan was some teenager obsessed with American movies.

          Jiro Shirasu was probably the first public Japanese figure to be photographed in jeans though.

          He studied at Cambridge University in the early 1920s, where he picked up a love for many things English, and then returned to Japan in 1928 to work as a journalist. Within a decade, he became an advisor to the Japanese government, and after the war, was appointed by the Foreign Ministry to help the Central Liaison Officer negotiate with the Occupation forces.

          There’s actually a famous story about how he once delivered a Christmas gift in 1945, from Emperor Hirohito to US Gener