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
Tojo in 1941
Hideki Tōjō portrait
Young Hideki Tojo
Tojo as a lieutenant general
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
Hideki Tojo
…Mutō. Kido's appointment also favored the rise of his allies in the Control faction. On 30 July 1940, Tojo was appointed army minister in the second Fumimaro Konoe regime and remained in that post in the third Konoe cabinet. Prince Konoe had chosen Tojo, a man representative of both the Army's hardline views and…
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