ABSTRACT
Kato Shidzue's perspective her most significant accomplishments during the fifties and sixties were her achievements as an ad hoc international diplomat. A mutual respect for Moral Re-Armament (MRA), combined with Kishi Nobusuke's foreign policy concerns and Kato's determined effort to apologize to and reconcile with the Korean people, assured that these two apparent political opponents could reach concurrence. Kato’s actions had gone beyond those of an unbridled party member; she had become a political maverick. In April, 1957, an MRA sponsored conference for Asians was held in Baguio, the Philippines, and the organizers wanted a delegation from Japan to take part. Prime Minister Kishi had approved travel for the MRA delegation, and he had privately agreed to the request of one delegate, Hoshijima Niro, to use this occasion to informally seek an end to the deadlock which existed between Japan and ROK.
