Hideki Tojo : A Dictator Of One Of The Biggest Army

He was the one who gave the orders for men to go and bomb Japan right where it will hurt them. The blast was so big and so destructive it shook japan into quitting the war. This was the end of wwll and japan surrendered. The cause of these bombings were because of several things. Japan did not keep their peace treaty and the war had to come to an end.

The Minamotos won, and the emperor made Minamoto Yoritomo shogun, the head of the military. Yoritomo however wanted more and took all power away from the emperor and made himself dictator. At this time the samurai gained power, through land given to them by the new shogun. Their rise in status was beginning.

In 1159, Kiyomori of the Taira clan was victorious over the Minamoto clan. Kiyomori murdered all the adults of the Monamoto clan and forced the children into exile. The emperor rewarded Kiyomori victory by giving him an advisor position in the government. This event was significant because Kiyomori was the first warrior in Japan’s government. Like the Fujiwara family, Kiyomori desired a royal bloodline within the Taira clan. So the Taira clan consorted with the imperial family in efforts to secure an imperial bloodline. Later, Kiyomori obtain a higher government position and more importantly a grandson was born and is heir to the throne. Feeling cheated an imperial prince sought the exiled Minamoto to overthrow the Taria clan. In 1180, Yoritomo of the Minamoto clan formed an army and battled with Taira clan that is known as the Genpei War. Eventually, Kiyomori died and the Taria clan shortly declined after him. During these battles warriors ran amok pillaging the Japan’s cuntryside. To end the chaos and violence the imperial turned to Yoritomo. Yoritomo in return raise an army of samurais and took complete control of the government and transformed it into a military government. The Kamakura government consisted of the emperor, shogun, and the house men. The emperor served merely as a figurehead, he little to no control of his government. The shogun had

Shogun - a Japanese military dictator, appointed by the emperor who had little other power

During the Imperial Conference of December 1, 1941, Prime Minister Tojo announced that “The United States not only refused to make even one concession” but that “At the same time, the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and China increased their economic and military pressure against us” (87). This gave Japan no choice but to begin a war with the U.S., Japan, and the Netherlands. Additionally, Foreign Minister Togo emphasized that Japan could not accept the proposal made by the U.S. because the conditions would hinder and put at risk the success of the Japanese Empire. In order for Japan to not only continue working towards establishing a New Order for East Asia, but to also maintain their position on an international level, war was the necessary step to take because if they continued to try to negotiate then they would most definitely have regressed.

Lord Takeda Shingen- The Lord of Kai, a ruthless warlord whose ambition is to rule all of Japan.

In 1933 he was appointed major general, two years later he was appointed head of Kwatung military police. Tojo earned the titles of Lieutenant General and Chief of Staff of the Kwatung army sometime between March 1937 and May 1938. Later that month in May he was appointed Vice Minister of War but he turned it down because he wanted to continue his work in the armed services. In 1941, Fuminaro Kondoye appointed him Minister of War. While he was Japan's Minister of War he wanted to conquer other European countries because he thought that if he did it would make Japan stronger. He failed to gain any land and in the end he lost support from people throughout Europe. Tojo also made his thoughts on the United States clear. He thought that we were lazy and incapable of being a string nation. Also while he was Minister of War Tojo made it clear that Japan should push south in the Far East and take the land owned by European nations. Not long after he was appointed Minister of War he was again appointed Prime Minister by the emperor of Japan on October 16th, 1941. When he was finally appointed Prime Minister he was convinced that a war with America could not be avoided. So he put Japan on a full war alert, which basically means that they were aware that they were going into war and that they were prepared. While he was Japan's Prime Minister he authorized the attack on Pearl Harbor. He thought that by doing that that it would again make Japan look stronger and would increase Japan's support for him. When the attack on Pearl Harbor took place it plunged the Far East into a war which was to end the destruction of Hiroshima. Following the attack of Pearl Harbor only made Tojo's power grow. Within hours after the attack, Tojo broadcasted a brief message to his countrymen warning them that "to annihilate this enemy and to establish a stable new order in East Asia, the nation first

In 1935–41 he served as the military adviser to the Philippine government. In July 1941 he was named commander of US forces in the Far East but, overwhelmed by the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, he was ordered to leave his forces on Bataan peninsula (with his promise ‘I shall return!’) and go to Australia. In 1942–5, as commander of the Southwest Pacific area (1942–5), he organized an island-hopping offensive that resulted in the return of US forces to the Philippines (Oct 1944). Supreme commander of the Allied powers, he presided over the Japanese surrender (2 Sep 1945). As military governor of Japan (1945–50), he was a benevolent dictator in forcing Japan to purge itself of its militarism and to adopt more democratic ways.

In 1941, President Roosevelt recruited him to return to his duty in the US army and he was appointed as the Commander of US Army Forces in the Far East to defend Philippine against the Japanese attacks. He was unable to protect Philippines and he was directed to escape to Australia, where he became the supreme commander of Southwest Pacific theatre. Unhappy with his defeat in the Philippines, he began to plan his counterattacks towards Japan and slowly took over all of New Guinea, the Admiralties, western New Britain, and Morotai. Japanese surrendered in 1945 and he was sent to Japan to occupy it until 1951. The Korean War broke out in 1950 and he was appointed as the supreme commander of the Allied Powers. However, in 1951, President Truman and General Macarthur had conflicting policies for Korea and the President relieved him from his duties. In April 1951, he gave his farewell speech to the Congress (Gale Research).

During this time there was a lot going on. A few years before, between the time 1937 and 1941 Japan owned most of the land of East and Southeast Asia. When the attack of the United States in December of 1941 at Pearl Harbor, this caused the United States to enter the war. Japan did not have enough resources to fight against the United States and Britain causing them to be pushed out of the land of East and Southeast Asia (Basic Information of the Bomb). The then president at the time FDR died in February 1945, which leads to Truman becoming the new president soon after.

He attended West Point and graduated from there in 1915. He served in a variety of training duties during World War I. He was promoted to Promoted Major in 1920.(Dupuy, Johnson, Bongard 236) He graduated from the top of his class at the Command and General Staff School. He served under General Douglas McArthur in the office of the chief of staff in the Philippines. He was promoted to Major General in December of 1944. He was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces during D-Day in 1944. He commanded until the

All this was fueled by Tōjō’s belief that there was no alternative to waging war with America; he believed America was starving Japan into submission, which he felt was unacceptable for the expansion of the Japanese Empire (Japan).

During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy’s “human resources were stretched thin,” forcing the Japanese government officials to turn towards Korea for extra manpower. In 1942, the government-general of Korea (GGK) announced that twenty-year-old Korean men would be conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. To promote Korean acceptance of conscription, the Japanese encouraged assimilation of Koreans into Japanese culture and society. This included learning Japanese and taking on a Japanese name. The attempts at assimilation and the draft left Koreans wondering whether they would become full citizens or “remain second rate subjects” after the war. Even Korean soldiers, who were supposedly equal to Japanese soldiers, were left wondering about their position in Japanese society. Through an analysis of Kasayama Yoshikichi’s recount of “The Korean Guard,” this paper argues that Kasayama reveals the nature of Korean conscription in the Japanese Army. In doing so, this paper shows how Korean soldiers were forced to comply to Japanese official orders, otherwise they would be punished; although, some Korean soldiers resisted towards the end of the war.

The death of emperor Hideyoshi and subsequent ascension to the throne of Hideyori in 1598 set into motion events that would alter the political landscape in Japan for the next two hundred and fifty years. Tokugawa Ieyasu, in his quest to become absolute ruler of Japan defeated Hideyori loyalists in the battle of Sekigahara and was appointed Shogun by Hideyori in 1603. This military “coup d’état” effectively gave Tokugawa complete control of Japan and reduced the emperor to little more than a figurehead in the governing of Japan. As history would show, the feudal system of government that Tokugawa created ultimately led to

War played a central part in the history of Japanese samurai. As regional clans gathered manpower, resources and struck alliances with each other, they formed a hierarchy centered around a toryo, or chief. This chief was typically a relative of the emperor