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Hideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on December 30, 1884, [2] as the third son of Hidenori Tojo, a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. [3] Under the bakufu , Japanese society was divided rigidly into four castes; the merchants, artisans, peasants, and the samurai .
Hideki Tojo had become prime minister on October 17, 1941; before his replacement by Kuniaki Koiso on July 22, 1944 the war had turned against Japan in the summer of 1943, except for some aspects of the Chinese campaign.
The committee included Konoe's political colleagues Fumio Gotō, Count Yoriyasu Arima and entrepreneur and right-wing spokesman Fusanosuke Kuhara. A radical wing of the military was represented by Kingoro Hashimoto , while the traditionalist military wings were represented by Senjūrō Hayashi , Heisuke Yanagawa and Nobuyuki Abe .
The Imperial Rule Assistance Political Association (翼賛政治会, Yokusan seijikai), abbreviated to Yokuseikai or IRAPA, was the policymaking body set up within the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for the purpose of liaising between the IRAA and the National Diet, and consisted of a joint caucus of members of both the House of Representatives and the House of Peers.
Kan Abe, the paternal grandfather of later Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was elected to the Diet in 1942 on an anti-Hideki Tojo platform along with future Prime Minister Takeo Miki, who also secured election to the Diet in 1942 on an anti-Tojo platform through mutual assistance with Abe. [77]
They included General Hideki Tōjō, chief of Kempeitai and leader of Kwantung Army; Yosuke Matsuoka, who served as president of the (South Manchuria Railway Company) and Foreign Affairs Minister; and Naoki Hoshino, an army ideologist who organized the government and political structure of Manchukuo. Tojo later became War Minister and Prime ...
Political party Term start Term end Prime Minister: Hideki Tojo: Taisei Yokusankai: October 18, 1941 July 22, 1944 Minister for Foreign Affairs: Shigenori Tōgō: Independent October 18, 1941 September 1, 1942 Hideki Tojo: Taisei Yokusankai: September 1, 1942 September 17, 1942 Masayuki Tani: Independent September 17, 1942 April 20, 1943 Mamoru ...
Hirohito, the Emperor of Japan Hideki Tojo, Supreme Military Leader of Japan and Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944. Hirohito (posthumously known as Emperor Shōwa) was the Emperor from 1926 until his death in 1989, making him the last surviving leader of the big three (Germany, Italy, and Japan). He was viewed as a semi-divine leader.