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The Sunday Oregonian, August 19, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 69 printed a cropped version of this photo with the caption: "M. Kurupensky is the new Ambassador to Japan from Russia." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1917-08-19/ed-1/se...

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The Russian ambassador to Japan in 1917 was Vasily Nikolaevich Krupensky (1868-1945) He was ambassador from 1916-1921. Krupensky is the modern transliteration and is more accurate to the original Russian Крупенский than Kurupensky, used by Bain. ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B...

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The website of THE EMBASSY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO JAPAN gives his name as Krupensky Vasily Nikolaevich as well, but according to that he was ambassador in 1916 and 1917 only, s. www.russia-emb.jp/english/embassy/history/index.html

Paul Ritter (1865 - 1921) was the Swiss Minister to the United States from 1909 to 1917 (www.swissinfo.ch/ger/erster-schweizer-botschafter-erlebt-..., in German) In 1917 he represented the German government in Washington after the severance of relations, s. The day book., February 06, 1917, LAST EDITION, Image 27, with photo chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1917-02-06/ed-....

What a spectacular uniform! www.inheiklermission.ch/e/presse1.php indicates that is the dress or court uniform of a Swiss ambassador.

Gensui Count Terauchi Masatake (寺内 正毅?), GCB (5 February 1852 – 3 November 1919), was a Japanese military officer, proconsul and politician. He was a Gensui (or Marshal) in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 9th Prime Minister of Japan from 9 October 1916 to 29 September 1918. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terauchi_Masatake

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