Takushiro Hattori
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Takushiro Hattori was an Imperial Japanese Army officer and government official. During World War II, he alternately served as the chief of the Army General Staff's Operations Section and Secretary to
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Shigeru Yoshida
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Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954, serving through most of the country's occupation after World
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…of the Pacific War. In the years after the war, his name was mentioned in CIA documents as a plotter in a 1952 plan to kill Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida. His planned assassination attempt was to precede a National Safety Agency coup in which former military officers, many of whom had been removed in the…
Yoshida in 1947
Yoshida as a child
The Shidehara Cabinet, with Yoshida on the far right, front row
The Constitution of Japan signed by the Emperor, Prime Minister Yoshida and other ministers