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14.09.2008 |  | The son of a samurai, Kiichiro Hiranuma was born on 28 September, 1867.
In 1888, he obtained a degree in English at the Imperial University of Tokyo and quickly found a job within the Ministry of Justice, where he gained a reputation of fighting against government corruption. He was appointed Director of the Tokyo High Court and the Prosecutor in the Supreme Court, and Director of the Office of Civil and Criminal Matters. In 1929, he convicte... |
14.09.2008 | | Kenji Dohihara was born on 8 August 1883 in Okayama.
In 1904, he finished his studies at the Academy of the Japanese Imperial Army, before joining the School of Army Personnel from which he graduated in 1912.
Kenji Dohihara was then sent to Beijing as military attaché. His fluency of Mandarin and several Chinese dialects distinguished him for intelligence missions.
Between 1921 and 1922, he participated in the Japanese intervention in... |
14.09.2008 | | Heitaro Kimura was born on 28th September 1888 in Tokyo.
In 1908, he graduated from the Academy of the Japanese Imperial Army as an officer of artillery.
Between 1918 and 1919, he served in the Japanese expedition to Siberia to fight against the Bolshevik army. He was then sent as a military attaché to Germany. He was promoted to Colonel in 1928.
From 1929 to 1931, Heitaro Kimura was the Japanese delegate at the London Conference on D... |
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09.12.2007 | | | Shumei Okawa |  Dismissal - lack of jurisdiction |  Tokyo IMT |  Japan |
Shumei Okawa was born on December 6, 1886, in Sakata, Yamagata, Japan, into a family of doctors.
In 1911, he graduated from the Tokyo Imperial University where he had studied Vedic literature and classical Indian philosophy. However, instead of looking for a job, he continued to study at the university’s library. In 1916, he published an essay on “The origins and the present state of the nationalist movement in India”. Four years later, he wa... |
03.12.2007 | | Yoshijiro Umezu was born on 4 January 1882. In the 1920s Umezu was a member of the Tosei-Ha (Control Group) led by General Kazushige Ugaki along with General Sugiyama, Koiso Kuniaki, Tetsuzan Nagata and Hideki Tojo (see “related cases”). They represented a moderate line between the armed forces, in opposition to the radical movement of the Koda-Ha (Action Group) guided by Sadao Araki.
Yoshijiro Umezu was an army officer and was in command of ... |
05.11.2007 | | Toshio Shiratori was born in 1887. He graduated from the Economy Department of Tokyo University.
He was the alternate consul at Shenyang Consulate in 1914, and was later appointed third secretary of the Japanese Embassy to the United States and officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
In 1930, he served as director of the Information Bureau. In 1933, he was appointed envoy to Sweden and ambassador to Italy in 1938.
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30.10.2007 | | Okinori Kaya was born in 1889.
He was appointed a Councilor of the Manchurian Affairs Bureau in 1936. Between 1937 and 1944 he held different positions at the Ministry of Finance of Japan, among which that of Finance Minister in the Konoye and in the Tojo Cabinets (from 1941 to 1944 for the latter). In these positions, he allegedly took part in the formulation of the aggressive policies of Japan and in the financial, economic and industrial p... |
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