Military Leadership in Japan
In Japan during the second world war it was reigned by an emperor (the divine emperor kind) named Emperor Shōwa. The emperor was not the only military leader in japan in fact he probably was not the primary. Prime minister and secretary of war Hideki Tojo was the main military leader in Japan. Hideki Tojo was born in 1884 and died in 1948. He was the leader of the Japanese military during the attack on pearl harbor (the attack that brought the U.S. into the war). When Tojo rose to power in 1940 he believed the success of Japan could go hand in hand with the dictators of Europe i.e. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Because of this Japan entered the axis powers with the Tripartite pact in September 27, 1940 shortly after the beginning of the second world war. The Japanese military was separated from the rest of the axis causing the Japanese to mostly be an ally in spirit instead of being able to assist in most ways as they had their hands full in the pacific theater. The pacific theater consisted of primarily pacific island countries and the U.S.. The war ended with the Japanese being the last to surrender several months after Germany had surrendered and Italy had overthrown Mussolini.
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