What is Koto Matsudaira?
{{Infobox person | name = Koto Matsudaira | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|02|05}} | birth_place = [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|05|04|1903|02|05}} | death_place = | nationality = Japanese | other_names = | occupation = diplomat | years_active = 1926–1965 | known_for = | notable_works = }} {{Nihongo|'''Koto Matsudaira'''|松平 康東|Matsudaira Kōtō|5 February 1903 – 4 May 1994}} was a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] diplomat from [[Tokyo]] who was an [[Ambassador]] to the [[United Nations]] from 1957 to 1961. ==Biography== Matsudaira was born in Tokyo to a shipowner on 5 February 1903. He first went to high school and then studied law at [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]] in his hometown. Although he entered the foreign service in 1926, he did not receive a degree until a year later. His further studies were in Paris, where he got a [[Doctor of Law]]. That same year, he also went to [[Institut d'études politiques de Paris]], where he got a diploma. In 1932, Matsudaira joined the [[League of Nations]] in [[Geneva]] as a delegate for Japan. Two years later, he was sent to work at the contract department at Japan's foreign office until early 1941. Some months afterward, he worked as a secretary at Japan's embassy in [[Washington, D.C.]] until the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]]. After returning to Japan, Matsudaira was one of the leading people at the foreign office's contract department until he went to Moscow as the first embassy secretary in 1944.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Koto+Matsudaira/0/8673.html|title=Koto Matsudaira|date=1959-03-09|website=Munzinger|language=German|access-date=2020-05-27}}</ref> After [[World War II]], Matsudaira was one of the witnesses at the Allied military court in Tokyo before serving as an Ambassador to [[Canada]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Langdon|first=Frank|date=1983|title=The Politics of Canadian-Japanese E