Fumimaro Konoe
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Prince Fumimaro Konoe was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1937 to 1939 and from 1940 to 1941. He presided over the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and breakdown in
Konoe in 1938
Fumimaro Konoe suit
Konoe reading imperial rescript as president of the House of Peers, 1936
Konoe and his first cabinet ministers in 1937
Hideki Tojo
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Hideki Tojo was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944 during World War II. His leadership was marked by widespread state violence and mass
Fumimaro Konoe
…Konoe's own inflexibility set the two countries on the path to war. Politically isolated, Konoe resigned as premier in October 1941 and was replaced by Hideki Tojo. Six weeks later, the Pacific War broke out after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Konoe remained a close advisor to Emperor Hirohito until the end…
Tojo in 1941
Hideki Tōjō portrait
Young Hideki Tojo
Tojo as a lieutenant general