* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

* 1872 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1951 )

Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) with future Prime Minister of Japan | Japanese Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai ( center ), Pan-Asianism | Pan-Asianist leader Tōyama Mitsuru ( left ) in Japan ( 1929 )

After meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, Whitlam observed that the reason Japan at that time was hesitant to withdraw recognition from the Nationalist government was " the presence of a treaty between the Japanese government and that of Chiang Kai-shek ".

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

* 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $ 3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

Later, the Japanese Prime Minister arrives with Takuya's ex-wife, Masako Tezuka, and offers him to explore an island in the sea with Masako and Marutomo company secretary, Kenji Andoh, and become a free man.

The Japanese arrange a meeting with the Russian and American ambassadors and, after some debate over the issue, Prime Minister Mitamura decides nuclear weapons will not be used on Godzilla even if he were to attack the Japanese mainland, an announcement that the Russians can't come to terms with.

Despite a 1995 apology regarding World War II by Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, tensions still remain, mostly because many Chinese feel there is a lack of true remorse for wartime crimes committed by Imperial Japanese forces.

This has been reinforced by numerous visits to the Yasukuni Shrine by Japanese Prime Ministers, attempts to revise textbooks by Japanese nationalists, the continued dispute over Japan's atrocities in the Nanking Massacre, and the resurgence of nationalism and militarism in Japan.

* 1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

is a Japanese politician who was the 76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.

Prince was a Japanese politician in the Empire of Japan who served as the 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan and founder / leader of the Taisei Yokusankai.

Yukio Hatoyama, former Japanese Prime Minister, is by some considered to be a " Botchan Sayoku ".

* 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

The highest honour in the Japanese honours system, the Collar of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, has only been conferred upon select Prime Ministers and eminent statesmen, and rarely when they were still alive ; the last such award to a living Prime Minister was to Saionji Kinmochi in 1928.

In foreign policy, ties with Japan were strengthened by state visits by both Chun to Japan and Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro to Korea.

Examples of conflicts include the Sea of Japan naming dispute, visits by successive Japanese Prime Ministers to the Yasukuni Shrine, and the disputed ownership of Liancourt Rocks.

* 1954 – Shinzō Abe, Japanese politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan

But when the Chinese made it clear that they had no interest in such an alliance ( especially given that the Japanese regarded Chinese adhesion to the proposed pact as way of subordinating China to Japan ), both Neurath and War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg persuaded Hitler to shelve the proposed treaty lest it damage Germany's good relations with China.

In addition, Ribbentrop hoped that recognizing Wang would be seen as a coup which might add to the prestige of the pro-German Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka, who was opposed to opening American-Japanese talks.

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

The new Foreign Minister assured the Soviet Ambassador that Japan would honor the neutrality agreement, even though Germany was urging its Japanese ally to attack the Russians from the east.

* 1860 – Sakuradamon incident ( 1860 ): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister ( Tairō ) Ii Naosuke

He is the head of the Cabinet and appoints and dismisses the Ministers of State ; the literal translation of the Japanese name for the office is Minister for the Comprehensive Administration of the Cabinet or Minister that Presides over the Cabinet.

In 1905, Taft met with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Tarō.

* Japanese ( manga )— Katsura Hoshino: D. Gray-man, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump ( 2004 – present ; main character, Allen Walker, is " the pierrot who will cause the akuma to fall "; anime based on manga released 2006 – 2008 ); Takashi Hashiguchi: Yakitate !!

Some East Asian entertainers ( Japanese Geisha, Korean Kisaeng ) wore wigs ( Katsura and gache respectively ) as part of their traditional costumes.

His writings, especially those on Katsura Imperial Villa reevaluated traditional Japanese architecture whilst bringing it to a wider audience.

Apart from beech trees, Katsura, Kalopanax, Japanese Hop-hornbeam and other species of tall deciduous trees are found in the forest.

Katsura is the Japanese name for the tree.

The Katsura Imperial Villa is a good example of the essence of Japanese traditional design.

Besides these characteristics, there are many traditional Japanese ideas that are used in the Katsura Imperial Villa, like the decorative alcove ( tokonoma ), built-in desk ( tsukeshoin ) and square posts.

* Walter Gropius, Kenzo Tange, Yasuhiro Ishimoto ( photographs ), Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture ( Yale University Press, New Haven, Zokeisha Publications, Tokyo, 1960 ) is a good ( although early ) work

is a Japanese teenage romance manga by Masakazu Katsura.

The Taft – Katsura Agreement ( also known as the Taft Katsura Memorandum ), ( Japanese: 桂 ・ タフト協定 Katsura-Tafuto Kyōtei ), was an informal 1905 understanding between Japan and the United States regarding the positions of the two nations in far eastern affairs.

The Taft – Katsura Memorandum ( also commonly called the Taft – Katsura Agreement ) consists of the meeting notes containing portions of a long, confidential conversation between Japanese Prime Minister Katsura and US Secretary of War Taft, held in Tokyo on the morning of 27 July 1905.

* Finally, regarding Korea, Katsura observed that Japanese colonization of Korea was a matter of absolute importance, as he considered Korea to have been a direct cause of the just-concluded Russo-Japanese War.

Following Japan ’ s victory in the Russo – Japanese War, with its subsequent withdrawal of Russian influence, and the Taft – Katsura Agreement, in which the United States allegedly agreed not to interfere with Japan in matters concerning Korea, the Japanese government sought to formalize its sphere of influence over the Korean peninsula.

* Katsura River, a Japanese river

* Marquess Katsura Taro ( 1848 – 1913 ), Japanese Prime Minister 1901-1906, 1908 – 1911, 1912 – 1913

* Katsura Kogoro, an alias of Kido Takayoshi, a Japanese politician during the Meiji Restoration

* Blaine ( Japanese name Katsura ), the Guren Island gym leader in Pokémon, known as " Blaine " in English-speaking countries