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Born December 30, 1884 • Tokyo • Japan
Died December 23, 1948 (aged 63) • Tokyo • Japan
Title / Office prime minister (1941-1944), Japan
Role In Pearl Harbor attack • World War II • Battle of Iwo Jima • Pacific War

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Homma Masaharu
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prime minister of Japan
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prime minister of Japan
Konoe Fumimaro.
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prime minister of Japan
Hirohito
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emperor of Japan
Ōkawa Shūmei
Japanese political theorist and writer
Shigemitsu Mamoru
Shigemitsu Mamoru
Japanese diplomat
Suzuki Kantarō
Danshaku Suzuki Kantarō
prime minister of Japan
Wang Ching-wei, 1941
Wang Ching-wei
Chinese revolutionary
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