Wakatsuki Reijirō
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Baron Wakatsuki Reijirō was a Japanese politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1926 to 1927, and again in 1931.
Reijiro Wakatsuki
Wakatsuki in 1926
Hamaguchi Osachi
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Hamaguchi Osachi was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931. Nicknamed the "Lion Prime Minister" due to his dignified demeanor and mane-like hair, Hamaguchi serv
Wakatsuki Reijirō
…speedy ratification of the disarmament treaty, thus earning the wrath of the Japanese military and various ultranationalist groups. After Prime Minister Hamaguchi was forced out of office by the severe injuries incurred in an assassination attempt, Wakatsuki assumed the leadership of the Rikken Minseitō, the…
Osachi Hamaguchi posing
Hamaguchi, before 1931
Adachi Kenzō, Osachi Hamaguchi, Toshio Shimada, Baron Kato, Kataoka Naoharu, and Ema Koigumi in 1916
The spot at Tokyo Station where Osachi Hamaguchi was shot