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Hirota attempted to persuade Joseph Stalin's government to stay out of the war, but he ultimately failed ; the Soviet Union declared war on Japan in between the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Hirota and government
Hirota soon returned to government service as Foreign Minister under Hayashi's successor, Prince Konoe Fumimaro.
In 1945, however, Hirota returned to government service to lead Japanese peace negotiations with the Soviet Union.
Other possible factors in Hirota's sentence included his signing of the Tripartite Alliance, and the antipathy of China's Kuomintang government towards the Hirota Sangensoku, which they viewed as providing justification for Japan's aggression against China in the Second Sino-Japanese War ( which began during Hirota's second term as Foreign Minister ).
However, during the abortive February 26 Incident Prince Asaka pressed the Emperor to appoint a new government that would be acceptable to the rebels, especially by replacing Prime Minister Okada Keisuke with Hirota Koki.
Hirota and war
Following Japan's surrender, Hirota was arrested as a Class A war criminal and brought before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Kōki Hirota, who was later hanged as a Class A war criminal, was also a leading member of the Genyōsha and one of Ogata's best friends.
Minister Kōki Hirota proclaimed " a special zone, anti-communist, pro-Japanese and pro-Manchukuo " and that Northern China was a " fundamental part " of Japanese national existence, in announcing a " holy war " against the Soviet Union and China as the " national mission ".
Hirota and ;
From the civilian side, Konoe Fumimaro or Hirota Koki were regarded as front-runners ; however the Army and the ultranationalists strongly supported General Ugaki Kazushige.
These heihaku were initially presented to 16 shrines ; and in 991, Emperor Ichijō added three more shrines to Murakami's list — including Hirota.
Hirota ; and 19.
Hirota and Soviet
During his second term as Foreign Minister, Hirota strongly opposed the military ’ s aggression against China, which completely undermined his efforts to create a Japan-China-Manchukuo alliance against the Soviet Union.
Hirota and on
He also promulgated the Hirota Sangensoku ( the Three Principles by Hirota ) on 28 October 1935 as the definitive statement of Japan ’ s position towards China.
Burial sites on Tanegashima, namely the Yokomine and Hirota sites, attest to a uniquely well-developed Yayoi period culture there living at the end of the 4th century AD.
Also in Japan, Generals Hideki Tōjō ( later Prime Minister ), Kenji Doihara, Seishirō Itagaki, Heitarō Kimura, Iwane Matsui and Akira Mutō, and Baron Kōki Hirota were found guilty and responsible for the brutal maltreatment of American and Filipino POW's, and were executed by hanging at Sugamo Prison in Ikebukuro on December 23, 1948.
In order to avoid that these upper level officers recover their influence on the army, Military Ministers to be Active-Duty Officers Law revived since the Hirota Cabinet.
: Some of this article's contents are derived from the Hirota Jinja article on the Japanese Wikipedia.
Hirota and Japan
** Koki Hirota, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan ( b. 1878 )
* March 9 – Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Koki Hirota.
* February 14 – Hirota Koki, Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1948 )
Terauchi and Koki Hirota at the Diet of Japan
In 1933, Hirota became Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Saitō Makoto, just after Japan withdrew from the League of Nations.
In 1936, with the radical factions within the Japanese military discredited following the 26 February Incident, Hirota was selected to replace Okada as Prime Minister of Japan.
Koki Hirota statue in Fukuoka City, Japan
The first Beard Papa's was opened in 1999 by Yuji Hirota in Osaka, Japan with the motto Pipin ' Hot Cream Puffs.
According to legend, Amaterasu, Goddess of the Sun, and arguably the most important kami in Shinto, speaks and declares that she and the other gods of Japan must be enshrined in Hirota, Nagata, Ikuta, and Sumiyoshi.
These geopolitical ideals developed into the Amau Doctrine ( an Asian Monroe Doctrine ), stating that Japan assumed total responsibility for peace in Asia, and can be seen later when Prime Minister Kōki Hirota proclaimed justified Japanese expansion into northern China as the creation of " a special zone, anti-communist, pro-Japanese and pro-Manchukuo " that was a " fundamental part " of Japanese national existence.
On April, 5 of 2008 Terem-Quartet organized Forum in which musicians all over the world represented their native countries: Great Britain ( Swingle Singers ), France ( Bratch ), Scotland ( Shooglenifty ), Sweden ( Real Group ), Iceland ( Diddú ), Japan ( Joji Hirota ) and Russia ( Yuri Shevchuk, Igor Butman and Pelageya Khanova ).
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The first Taiko player in the UK was Joji Hirota, soon followed by the UK's first regularly performing Taiko group, Akatsuki Daiko, set up in 1993. Notable current groups are Mugenkyo, Taiko Meantime and Kagemusha Taiko
One of the victims, Hirota Isomura, apparently died instantly.
Hirota was born in what is now part of Chūō-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka Prefecture.
His father's name was Tokubei ( 徳平 ) and was a stonemason, and Tokubei was adopted into the Hirota family, and married Take ( タケ ) who was a daughter of a president of a Japanese noodle company.
It was recognized that Hirota's writing was good, and that the name plate of Tori gate of Suikyo Shrine was written by Hirota when he was 11.
After graduation, Hirota entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become a career diplomat, and served in a number of overseas posts.
As Foreign Minister, Hirota negotiated the purchase of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria from Russian interests.
However, Hirota placated the military by reinstating the system by which only active-duty Army or Navy officers could serve in the Cabinet posts of War Minister or Navy Minister.
In February 1937, Senjūrō Hayashi was appointed to replace Hirota as Prime Minister.
The severity of his sentence remains controversial, as Hirota was the only civilian executed as a result of the IMTFE proceedings.
It is often stated that the main factor in his death sentence was the fact that he was party to information about what is now known as the Nanjing Massacre, about which he is alleged to have telegraphed to the Japanese embassy in Washington D. C. As Foreign Minister, Hirota received regular reports from the War Ministry about the military's atrocities, but lacked any authority over the offending military units themselves.
attempted and persuade
Alexander attempted to persuade Ewen, the son of Duncan, Lord of Argyll, to sever his allegiance to Haakon IV of Norway.
Parkinson actively attempted to persuade the authorities to avoid dividing the university, but to maintain it to serve both Singapore and Malaya in Johor Bahru.
Vespasian attempted to arrange a dynastic marriage between his youngest son and the daughter of Titus, Julia Flavia, but Domitian was adamant in his love for Domitia Longina, going so far as to persuade her husband, Lucius Aelius Lamia, to divorce her so that Domitian could marry her himself.
In early 408, Stilicho attempted to strengthen his position at court by marrying his second daughter, Thermantia, to Honorius after the death of the empress Maria in 407 Another invasion by Alaric was prevented in 408 by Stilicho when he forced the Roman Senate to pay 4, 000 pounds of gold to persuade the Goths to leave Italy.
During the Suez crisis, Nehru's right hand man, Menon attempted to persuade a recalcitrant Gamal Nasser to compromise with the West, and was instrumental in moving Western powers towards an awareness that Nasser might prove willing to compromise.
In the second, from 1939 – 43, Ribbentrop attempted to persuade other states to enter the war on Germany's side or at least maintain pro-German neutrality.
Germany attempted to ' persuade ' France to cede territory in the Middle Congo in return for giving France a free hand in Morocco.
In January 1998, after Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying any physical relationship with Clinton, and attempted to persuade Tripp to lie under oath in the Jones case, Tripp gave the tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and these tapes added to his ongoing investigation into the Whitewater controversy.
He attempted to persuade Kaiser Wilhelm I that he should be endowed with the sovereign duchy of Lauenburg, in reward for his services to the imperial family and the German empire.
Critics of this kind include anti-Stalinist communists such as Leon Trotsky, who pointed out that Lenin attempted to persuade the CPSU to remove Stalin from his post as its General Secretary.
Themistocles seems to have realised that for the Greeks to survive the coming onslaught required there to be a Greek navy which could hope to face up to the Persian navy, and he therefore attempted to persuade the Athenians to build such a fleet.
High-ranking diplomatic visits to South Africa repeatedly attempted to persuade Mbeki to take a harder line with Robert Mugabe over violent state-sponsored attacks on political opponents and opposition movements, expropriation of white-owned farms by ZANU-PF allied " war veterans ", sanctioning against the press, and infringements on the independence of the judiciary.
A national organization was planned as early as 1827, when the New York leaders attempted, unsuccessfully, to persuade Henry Clay who was a Mason, to renounce the Order and head the movement.
Orderic also related that Odo had attempted to persuade some of William's vassals to join Odo on an invasion of southern Italy.
( Verdi had previously attempted to persuade the manager of La Fenice to re-cast the role with a younger woman, but with no success.
Soon after his return to Ingolstadt, Eck attempted to persuade Elector Frederick of Saxony to have Luther's works burned in public, and during the year 1519 he published no less than eight writings against the new movement.
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After the 1970 election, the Track I operation attempted to incite Chile's outgoing president, Eduardo Frei Montalva, to persuade his party ( PDC ) to vote in Congress for Alessandri.
With the start of the Second World War in the Pacific, he attempted to persuade the invading Japanese forces to declare independence for Vietnam in 1942 but was ignored.
Benjamin Franklin had attempted to persuade the French to lead by example and stop issuing Letters of Marque to their corsairs, but the effort floundered when war loomed with Britain once again.
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