The Yanagisawa clan of Yamato and Honjō clan of Miyazu were two fudai families among those who had the right to use the Matsudaira surname.

Honjō ordered him to take a reply to Yamaguchi “ Do whatever necessary to prevent the contemplated action from being undertaken ”.

At Dalian in the Kwantung Leased Territory, Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army General Shigeru Honjō was at first appalled that the invasion plan was enacted without his permission, but was eventually convinced by Ishiwara to give his approval after the fact.

Honjō moved the Kwantung Army headquarters to Mukden and ordered General Senjuro Hayashi of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea to send in reinforcements.

While his father was shogun, his mother was an adopted daughter of the Honjō family, led by Honjō Munemasa, in Kyoto.

On March 22, 2005 the city of Honjō and the towns of Chōkai, Higashiyuri, Iwaki, Nishime, Ōuchi, Yashima and Yuri merged to form the new city of Yurihonjō.

On January 10, 2006 the town of Kodama was merged into Honjō.

In 1956, Ai and Honjō merged becoming Aino.

On March 3, 2005, Saiki absorbed the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Tsurumi, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages Honjō, Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, to form into a new and expanded Saiki City.

Watsuki also credits Oda for the creation of the character Honjō Kamatari who appears in Rurouni Kenshin.

* February 11, 1925-The village of Higashitara renamed to the village of Honjō.

* July 15, 1954-The town of Hishikari and the village of Honjō merged to form the town of Hishikari.

* November 3, 1954-The town of Fukushima and the villages of Ōtsuka ( 大束村 ), Ichiki ( 市木村 ), Honjō ( 本城村 ), and Toi ( 都井村 ) merged to form the city of Kushima.

On March 3, 2005 Kamiura, along with the towns of Kamae, Tsurumi, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages of Honjō, Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Yayoi, along with the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Tsurumi and Ume, and the villages of Honjō, Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Honjō, along with the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Tsurumi, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages of Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Ume, along with the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Tsurumi and Yayoi, and the villages of Honjō, Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Naokawa, along with the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Tsurumi, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages of Honjō and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Tsurumi, along with the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages of Honjō, Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Yonōzu, along with the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Tsurumi, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages of Honjō and Naokawa, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Kamae, along with the towns of Kamiura, Tsurumi, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages of Honjō, Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

* October 1, 1954-The villages of Kitakawasoe, Honjō, Nabeshima, Kinryū, and Kuboizumi merged into the city of Saga.

According to Honjō Diary, 2nd Lieutenant Itō Tsuneo visited General Honjō Shigeru, the head of officers in attendance on the Emperor.

Honjō begged the Emperor for acceptance of their mind somehow.

The army minister Kawashima and Yamashita intermediated between them and Honjō.

The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.

Within a month Granby resigned the leadership in the commons, feeling himself inadequate to the post, and the party functioned without an actual leader in the commons for the remainder of the parliamentary session.

In June 2009, Sanader abruptly resigned his post, and named Jadranka Kosor in his place.

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958, and the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 – 60, he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity.

The Minister of Fuel and Power, Emanuel Shinwell, became a scapegoat for the crisis and was widely blamed for failing to ensure adequate coal stocks, and soon resigned from his post.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s Eisenhower's career in the post war army stalled somewhat, as military priorities diminished ; many of his friends resigned for high-paying business jobs.

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.

Sir John Kerr resigned in 1977 after accepting the position of Australian Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, a post which ultimately he did not take up.

New World Development announced in the early hours of 16 August that Leung had resigned from his post, without any compensation from either side or from the government, for the termination.

Hitler sent Guderian on a forced medical leave of absence, and he resigned his post as chief of staff to Hans Krebs on 29 March.

* Hans Krüger ( 1959 – 1963 ) ( resigned from his post due to his Nazi past )

President Berisha resigned from his post, and Socialists elected Rexhep Meidani as president of Albania.

Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.

The Socialists re-elected Ilir Meta as Prime Minister in August 2001, a post which he held till February 2002, when he resigned due to party infighting.

He resigned from his post, complaining that the project was " unfeasible " and posed " architectural risks ".

The unpreparedness of the army was blamed on Defence Minister Menon, who " resigned " his government post to allow for someone who might modernise India's military further.

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for northern New Mexico.

Having converted to Christianity, he resigned his post before Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first " Edict against the Christians " ( February 24, 303 ).

While still in his teens, Ferrari was able to obtain a prestigious teaching post after Cardano resigned from it and recommended him.

He resigned from that post in April 2009 in order to stand as a candidate in the July 2009 presidential election, which he won.

She resigned the presidency two months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the United Nations.

Although the two men came to an agreement to share power, John VI resigned from his imperial post and became a monk.

On 31 December 1999 President Yeltsin resigned, handing the post to the recently appointed Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, who then won the 2000 presidential election.

Due to a number of operational mistakes involving the various police services, German Minister of the Interior Rudolf Seiters took responsibility and resigned from his post.