John Moore Allison

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John Moore Allison (April 7, 1905 - October 28, 1978) was US Ambassador to Japan from 1953 to 1957.

On January 26, 1938, during the Rape of Nanking, John M. Allison, an American consul at the American embassy in Nanking, was struck in the face by a Japanese soldier. This incident is commonly known as the Allison incident. Even though the Japanese apologised formally on the 30th (after the Americans demanded they do so), this incident, together with the looting of American property in Nanking that took place at the same time, further strained relations between Japan and the United States, which had already been damaged by the Panay incident less than two months earlier.

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1. Article in The New York Times
2. Article in The New York Times
3. Article on Japan in 1938 in MSN Encarta