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20.03.2010 |  | Born in Japan in 1880, Yosuke Matsuoka joined the Foreign Service, which he served in for eighteen years. He gained international notoriety in 1933 when he announced Japan’s departure from the League of Nations (as a result of the League’s criticism of Japan’s operations in Manchuria) and led the Japanese delegation out of the League’s assembly hall. After leaving the Foreign Service, Matsuoka went to occupied Manchuria and became President of th... |
20.03.2010 | | Iwane Matsui was born in 1878. A commanding officer in the Japanese army, he rose to the rank of General in 1933.
He was accused of having conspired to wage wars of aggression and of having taken part in such wars.
Matsui retired in 1935, but was recalled to active duty in 1937 and given the command of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, before being appointed Commander in Chief of the army in the central China area. His troops took Nanking o... |
18.03.2010 | | Kenryo Sato was born 1895 and was graduated from Military Academy in 1917. In 1937, Kenryo Sato, then a Member of the Military Bureau Affairs, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; the same year, he was appointed an Investigator of the Planning Board, of which, he was for a time secretary. He was also a member of different bodies in greater or less degree connected with Japan’s war in China and its contemplated wars with other countries... |
28.02.2010 | | Shigetaro Shimada was born on 24 September 1883; he graduated from the Naval Academy in November 1904. Shimada rose through the ranks of the Imperial Japanese Navy and eventually became an admiral. Prior to World War II, Shimada held a variety of senior naval positions including Vice Chief of the Naval General Staff and Chief of the China Fleet. In October 1941, Shigetaro Shimada became Navy Minister in the Tojo (see “related cases”) Cabinet and ... |
27.02.2010 | | Hideki Tojo was born in Tokyo, Japan, on 30th December 1884. He joined the Japanese Army and his military service included periods in Switzerland and Germany.
Promoted to Major General in 1933 he became Chief of the Military Police of the Kwantung Army in September 1935. After promotion to lieutenant general he became Chief of Staff to the Kwantung Army (March 1937-May 1938).
In May 1938 Fumimaro Konoye appointed Tojo as his Vice Minister ... |
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21.02.2010 | | 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 faction within the armed forces, in opposition to the radical movement of the Koda-Ha (Action Group) led by Sadao Araki.
Yoshijiro Umezu was an army officer in command of Japanese ... |
10.02.2010 | | Tomoyuki Yamashita was born on 8 November 1885 in the little village of Osugi Mura on the island of Shikoku. After adopting a military career, he worked for the War Ministry and became military attaché in Germany, Hungary and Austria.
After playing a minor role in the attempted coup d’état of 26 February 1936 (during which army officers assassinated several ministers and tried to overthrow the government), he fell out of favour and was sent to... |
21.12.2009 | | Koki Hirota was born on 14 February 1878 in Fukuoka Prefecture and graduated with a law degree from Tokyo Imperial University. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become a career diplomat, and served as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1932 before becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1933, the same year as Japan's withdrawal from the League of Nations. In 1936, Emperor Hirohito named Hirota Prime Minister. He stayed in of... |
30.11.2009 | | Akira Muto was born in Japan in 1883.
Embarking on a career in the military, he was appointed Head of the Military Affairs Bureau, a position he fulfilled alongside other responsibilities, contributing to making him an important participant in a conspiracy the aim of which was to plan, prepare and carry out wars of aggression.
He was charged with having taken part in wars of aggression against China, the United States, the British Commonwe... |
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