Konoe made one more desperate attempt to avert war.

The Navy Minister made a reply along the lines that Konoe had stated in his private conference.

While the Emperor received detailed reports from Sugiyama and Nagano about the operations in Southeast Asia and the attack of Pearl Harbor, Prime Minister Konoe made one last desperate attempt to avoid war.

Consequently, he made many enemies who resented his disapproval of the current Emperor Konoe and his cloistered puppet master Toba.

Konoe immediately was made prime minister again, and replaced Matsuoka as Foreign Minister with Admiral Teijirō Toyoda.

On December 6, 1938, Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, Foreign Minister Hachirō Arita, Army Minister Seishirō Itagaki, Naval Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, and Finance Ministry Shigeaki Ikeda met to discuss the dilemma at the " Five Ministers ' Conference ", they made a decision of prohibiting the expulsion of the Jews in Japan, Manchuria, and China in accordance with the spirit of racial equality which Japan have insisted for many years.

Tōgō was adamantly against war with the United States and the other western powers, which he felt was unwinnable, and together with Mamoru Shigemitsu, made unsuccessful last-ditch efforts to arrange for direct face-to-face negotiations between Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe and US President Franklin Roosevelt in an attempt to stave off conflict.

However, when anti-Japanese American journalist Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard had it translated, and wrote a rebuttal in his journal, Millard's Review, he reprimanded Konoe.

After the former Emperor Toba and the former Emperor Sutoku abdicated, each intended to continue to wield various kinds of power behind the throne during the reign of Emperor Konoe ; however, when young Konoe died, the dynamics of the contending factions changed.

In the anime, the story begins when Chief Konoe, the boss, and the other supporting characters begin talking about murders happening in Nagasaki.

This change to a one-party state was effected in 1940 under Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, when all remaining political parties joined the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.

Throughout the next six months, Konoe continued to hope that somehow he would convince Roosevelt to meet with him and settle differences — without having to give up Japanese hegemony in East Asia.

Prince Konoe convinced Saionji to include him in the Japanese delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.

The five Fujiwara families, Ichijō, Kujō, Nijō, Konoe and Takatsukasa, were the primary source of imperial brides from the 8th century to the 19th century, even more often than daughters of the imperial clan itself.

During the 13th century, the Fujiwara northern house ( Hokke ) was split into the five regent houses: Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Nijō and Ichijō.

As recently as Emperor Shōwa's third daughter, the late former Princess Takanomiya ( Kazoku ), and Prince Mikasa's elder daughter, the former Princess Yasuko, married into Takatsukasa and Konoe families, respectively.

* In the manga Mahō Sensei Negima, the character Konoka Konoe is a member of the Fujiwara clan.

* 1139 – Emperor Konoe of Japan ( d. 1155 )

Prince Fumimaro Konoe was born into the ancient Fujiwara clan, and was the heir of the princely Konoe family in Tokyo.

Konoe ’ s father, Atsumaro, had been politically active, having organized the Anti-Russia Society in 1903.

That left Konoe with the title of Prince, plenty of social standing but not much money, and plenty of room for a mentor / father-figure.

Even so, Konoe never fully embraced his mentor ’ s pro-Western attitudes.

Konoe asserted that the proposed League of Nations was designed to cement the hegemony of the victorious nations.

Once the conference was concluded, Konoe left the delegation and visited France and Germany, then England and the United States.

Konoe as a traveler was very taken with Western society.

Even though Saionji considered him brash and " ill-informed ," Konoe was considered his protégée by all parties, including Saionji himself.

Despite his outspokenness, Prince Konoe was destined to achieve the very heights of political life in Japan.

Prince Konoe went on to serve three times as Japan ’ s Prime Minister.

In June 1937, Prince Fumimaro Konoe became Prime Minister of Japan.

Saionji had recommended Konoe to Emperor Hirohito despite his hesitations, because he felt that the Prince might be able to keep the Imperial Japanese Army in check and protect the position of the Emperor.

Konoe yielded to pressure and dispatched three divisions of troops, admonishing the military to be sure not to escalate the conflict.

Prime Minister Konoe began to realize that he was in a very difficult predicament.

Konoe agreed with Army Minister General Hajime Sugiyama to send two divisions to defend Japanese honor.

Fellow Cabinet members describe Konoe as remarkably passive during their discussions of how to respond to the Chinese.

The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

Under this new management considerable progress appears to have been made.

For the making of selections on the basis of excellence requires that any foundation making the selections shall have available the judgments of a corps of advisors whose judgments are known to be good: such judgments can be known to be good only by the records of those selected, by records made subsequent to their selection over considerable periods of time.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Its great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the Sis pass, and near the great road which debouched from the Cilician Gates, made Anazarbus play a considerable part in the struggles between the Byzantine Empire and the early Muslim invaders.

It seems clear he was a good-looking, engaging young man, whose easy humour and kindness towards the sisters made a considerable impression.

This can be a considerable saving in processing time given that images are often made up of millions of pixels.

Albert, and his descendants of the House of Ascania, then made considerable progress in Christianizing and Germanizing the lands.

Abba Mari possessed considerable Talmudic knowledge and some poetical talent ; but his zeal for the Law made him an agitator and a persecutor of all the advocates of liberal thought.

During the latter half of the 19th century, considerable public improvements were made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring collieries, a pleasant place to live.

They also made it available to high schools in the Hanover area and put a considerable amount of effort into promoting the language.

The party enjoyed a considerable honeymoon period with the press, who made much mileage out of their quirk for proffering claret at their functions.

In his later youth, Smith made the acquaintance of the San Francisco poet George Sterling through a member of the local Auburn Monday Night Club, where he read several of his poems with considerable success.

Among contemporary writers, the satirist Craig Brown has made considerable use of the clerihew in his columns for The Daily Telegraph.

Its graphic and interactive violence, as well as its Satanic imagery, also made it the subject of considerable controversy.

Their marriage was kept out of the public eye for nearly 18 months, and when made public, in June 1969, caused a considerable backlash for Jones from fans accusing him of deception.

Despite considerable research efforts by seismologists, scientifically reproducible predictions cannot yet be made to a specific day or month.

Pope Leo X later made the dispensation permanent, a considerable privilege at the time.

The Nieuport 11 of 1916 and Royal Aircraft Factory S. E. 5 of 1918 both used this system with considerable success, however this placement made aiming difficult and the location made it difficult for a pilot to both maneuver and have access to the gun's breech.

Of course, most family members of a deceased person would regard any wishes the deceased had made known as carrying considerable moral authority.

It was also noted that there was considerable negative publicity regarding economic tensions between the United States and Japan at the time the film was made.

Despite this, the strong claims made by the doctrine of human rights continue to provoke considerable skepticism and debates about the content, nature and justifications of human rights to this day.