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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 the wake of the electoral triumph a wave of political assassinations plagued the nation, aimed largely at ministers still in the cabinet who displayed some independence. In March 1932 ex-minister Inouye and Baron Takuma Dan , a leader of the banking interest Mitsui and one of the most powerful financial figures in Japan, were killed by shooting.
Shōwa Statism (國家主義, Kokkashugi) is the nationalist ideology associated with the Empire of Japan, particularly during the Shōwa era. It is sometimes also referred to as Emperor-system fascism ( 天皇制ファシズム , Tennōsei fashizumu ) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Japanese-style fascism ( 日本型ファシズム , Nihongata fashizumu ) [ 2 ...
Toggle Ultranationalist organizations and political parties subsection. 1.1 Post-war. ... Ideologies. Capitalist. Fiscal ... Tojo (Hideki) Tojo (Yuko) Parties.
Kan Abe, the paternal grandfather of later Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was elected to the Diet in 1942 on an anti-Hideki Tojo platform along with future Prime Minister Takeo Miki, who also secured election to the Diet in 1942 on an anti-Tojo platform through mutual assistance with Abe. [77]
The ideology of the Japanese colonial empire, as it expanded dramatically during the war, contained two contradictory impulses. On the one hand, it preached the unity of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, a coalition of Asian races directed by Japan against Western imperialism in Asia .
The Emperor became fatalistic about going to war, as the military assumed more and more control. Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe was replaced by the war cabinet of General Hideki Tojo (1884–1948), who demanded war. Tōjō had his way and the attack was made on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, as well as British and Dutch strong points.
The military was considered "clean" in terms of political corruption, and elements within the army were determined to take direct action to eliminate the perceived threats to Japan created by the weaknesses of liberal democracy and political corruption. Hideki Tōjō, the Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, was a member of the ...