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
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Konoe reading imperial rescript as president of the House of Peers, 1936
Konoe and his first cabinet ministers in 1937
Morihiro Hosokawa
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Morihiro Hosokawa is a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994. He led an eight-party coalition government which was the first Japanese government not headed by a L
Fumimaro Konoe
…Fumimaro had died by suicide by taking potassium cyanide. His grave is at the Konoe clan cemetery at the temple of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto. His grandson, Morihiro Hosokawa, became prime minister fifty years later, on 9 August 1993. Prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor…
Official portrait, 1993
Hosokawa at the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 1993
Hosokawa with Boris Yeltsin, Hirohisa Fujii and Masayoshi Takemura in October 1993
Hosokawa with Bill Clinton at APEC Summit in November 1993