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Hideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on December 30, 1884, [2] as the third son of Hidenori Tojo, a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. [3] Under the bakufu , Japanese society was divided rigidly into four castes; the merchants, artisans, peasants, and the samurai .
In March 1942, Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō attempted to eliminate the influence of elected politicians by establishing an officially sponsored election nomination commission, which restricted non-government-sanctioned candidates from the ballot. [20]
The Imperial Rule Assistance Political Association (翼賛政治会, Yokusan seijikai), abbreviated to Yokuseikai or IRAPA, was the policymaking body set up within the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for the purpose of liaising between the IRAA and the National Diet, and consisted of a joint caucus of members of both the House of Representatives and the House of Peers.
Hideki Tojo was a politician and general of the Imperial Japanese Army. Politically, he was a fascist, nationalist, and militarist. [81] Tojo served as Prime Minister of the Empire of Japan during most of the Pacific War (his tenure being 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944). Tojo supported a preventive war against the United States. [82]
Anami belonged to the clique which supported the rise of Hideki Tojo to power in October 1941. However, in April 1941, Anami returned to China as Commander in Chief of the 11th Army, covering ongoing operations in central China. He was transferred to the Japanese Second Area Army in Manchukuo in July 1942. [2] [page needed]
Hideki Tojo had become prime minister on October 17, 1941; before his replacement by Kuniaki Koiso on July 22, 1944 the war had turned against Japan in the summer of 1943, except for some aspects of the Chinese campaign.
Kiyosawa showed scorn towards Tojo and Koiso, lamenting the rise of hysterical propaganda, and related his own and his friends' struggles to avoid arrest. He also recorded the increasing poverty, crime, and disorder, tracing the gradual disintegration of Japan's war effort and the looming certainty of defeat.
Hideki Tojo: Taisei Yokusankai: September 1, 1942 September 17, 1942 Masayuki Tani: Independent September 17, 1942 April 20, 1943 Mamoru Shigemitsu: Independent April 20, 1943 July 22, 1944 Minister of Home Affairs: Hideki Tojo: Taisei Yokusankai: October 18, 1941 February 17, 1942 Michio Yuzawa: Independent February 17, 1942 April 20, 1943 ...