Imperial General Headquarters
The Imperial General Headquarters was part of the Supreme War Council and was established in 1893 to coordinate efforts between the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during wartime. In terms of function, it was approximately equivalent to the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff and the British Chiefs of Staff Committee.
Mitsumasa Yonai
Mitsumasa Yonai was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the Prime Minister of Japan in 1940.
Soemu Toyoda
Soemu Toyoda was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.
Shigetarō Shimada
Shigetarō Shimada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Minister of the Navy. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Prince Kan'in Kotohito
Prince Kan'in Kotohito was the sixth head of a cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.
Ministry of the Navy (Japan)
The Navy Ministry was a cabinet-level ministry in the Empire of Japan charged with the administrative affairs of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). It existed from 1872 to 1945.
Gozen Kaigi
Imperial Conference was an extraconstitutional conference on foreign matters of grave national importance that was convened by the government of the Empire of Japan in the presence of the Emperor.
Hayao Tada
Hayao Tada was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office
The Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office , also called the Army General Staff, was one of the two principal agencies charged with overseeing the Imperial Japanese Army.
Zengo Yoshida
Zengo Yoshida was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Kyūjō incident
The Kyūjō incident was an attempted military coup d'état in the Empire of Japan at the end of the Second World War. It happened on the night of 14–15 August 1945, just before the announcement of Japan's surrender to the Allies. The coup was attempted by the Staff Office of the Ministry of War of Japan and many from the Imperial Guard to stop the move to surrender.
Hideo Kodama
Count Hideo Kodama , was a politician, and wartime cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan. He was the eldest son of famed Russo-Japanese War general Kodama Gentarō, and his wife was the daughter of Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake.
Hisanori Fujita
Hisanori Fujita was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. After retiring from active service, he served as the Chief Chamberlain of Japan and adviser to the Emperor of Japan during World War II.
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo was a Japanese politician and general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for the majority of World War II. Before becoming Japan's head of government, Tojo was among the most outspoken proponents for preventive war against the United States during deliberations leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Upon becoming Prime Minister in October 17, 1941, he presided over the conquest of much of the West's territories in Asia and the Pacific until the defeat of Japanese forces at Midway and Guadalcanal. During his years in power, he also oversaw the perpetration of numerous war crimes including the systematic massacre and starvation of civilians and prisoners of war. As the war's tide increasingly turned against Japan, Tojo was forced to resign as Prime Minister on July 22, 1944. After Japan's surrender in September 1945, Tojo was arrested, sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and hanged on December 23, 1948.
List of members of Nippon Kaigi
Among the members, former members, and members of affiliated organizations of the Japanese nationalist and historical revisionist movement Nippon Kaigi are lawmakers, cabinets ministers and a few prime ministers. The chairman is Toru Miyoshi, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.