Takeo ODA [????-????]

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Names
Given
Takeo
Family
Oda
Sex
Male
Status
Deceased

(The surname also appears romanised as Ota / Otah)

The head of Japanese Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong.

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The head of Japanese Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong
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終戦連絡中央事務局 (Central Liaison Office)
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Takeo ODA

明治四0年 1907 was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1907
昭和十三年 1938 Japanese Consul in Hong Kong
X -1941 was transferred from Hong Kong office before the war
昭和十七年 1942 Chief of the Foreign Affairs Department in Hong Kong
X 1945- Central Liaison Office - Head of Economic Division
明治三0年 1897 was born in Okayama, Japan in 1897
昭和十二年 1937 Japanese Deputy Consul in Shanghai
昭和十六年 1941 Japanese Consul in Melbourne
昭和十八年 1943 Chief of the Foreign Affairs Department in Hong Kong
昭和十九年 1944 He was transferred out of Hong Kong
X 1945- Central Liaison Office - Head of Chugoku Regional Office
The head of Japanese Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong
The head of Japanese Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong
終戦連絡中央事務局 (Central Liaison Office)
終戦連絡中央事務局 (Central Liaison Office)
 

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  • The head of Japanese Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong
(昭和18年2月) Japanese language content : (February, 1943) brief meaning in English :
領事 服部恒雄 満洲国及中華民国ヘ出張ヲ命ス :  領事服部恒雄ハ過般日英交換船ニ依リ任地濠洲ヨリ帰朝シタルカ近ク陸軍司政官ニ転出シ外務書記官黄田多喜夫ノ後任トシテ香港総督部ニ於テ勤務スルコトヲ予定セラレ居ル処同官ハ発令赴任前最近ノ満洲国及中華民国ノ状況ヲ視察シ度キ旨切望致シ居リ右ハ同官ノ新任務遂行上誠ニ有益ナリト認メラルルニ付テハ往復約三週間ノ予定ヲ以テ新京、北京、南京及上海ヲ視察セシムル為満支ニ出張ヲ命セラルルコトト致度 Consul Tsuneo HATTORI recently returned to Japan from his post in Australia. He was scheduled to replace Takeo ODA as Chief of the Foreign Affairs Department in Hong Kong. Before assuming his new post, he desired to first observe the current situations in Manchukuo and China.

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(Takeo ODA) At this critical juncture Oda was transferred back to Tokyo. He had long since told me that he was going; he hated his job and was anxious to get into some other work, away from the sad, moribund little town. 

(Tsuneo HATTORI) Yes, this Hong Kong is not an easy job. That’s why I held off so long, before I would consent to take it. That’s why Oda had to wait for some months instead of going straight to Tokyo last year, as he wished. But I will tell you why I did come at last.  I was in Australia for years, in the consular service. I was interned there after Pearl Harbor.

Sources: China to me by Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997