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  • Thumbnail for Yōsuke Matsuoka
    Yōsuke Matsuoka (松岡 洋右, Matsuoka Yōsuke, March 4, 1880 – June 27, 1946) was a Japanese diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan...
    17 KB (1,925 words) - 16:44, 9 November 2024
  • Company (now TV Asahi). The eldest son of Japanese foreign minister Yōsuke Matsuoka, Kenichiro was born in the United States while his father was First...
    8 KB (820 words) - 08:45, 23 September 2024
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    Stalin, in an unprecedented gesture, saw Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka off at the train station. That was symbolic of the importance that...
    18 KB (2,236 words) - 05:42, 5 October 2024
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    serving from 1938 to 1940, and became adviser to foreign minister Yōsuke Matsuoka in 1940. He was an advocate of military expansionism, counseling an...
    4 KB (323 words) - 08:17, 8 June 2024
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    Japan's Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka, a Germanophile, visited Berlin. On 29 March 1941, during a conversation with Matsuoka, Ribbentrop, as instructed...
    160 KB (21,625 words) - 03:00, 11 November 2024
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    politician Yosuke Kubozuka (窪塚 洋介, born 1979), Japanese actor Yosuke Kuroda (黒田 洋介, born 1968), Japanese anime screenwriter Yosuke Matsuoka (松岡 洋右, 1880–1946)...
    5 KB (556 words) - 12:47, 9 November 2024
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    mentally unfit for trial and the charges were dropped. Two defendants, Yōsuke Matsuoka and Osami Nagano, died of natural causes during the trial. Six defendants...
    72 KB (8,370 words) - 08:59, 13 November 2024
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    any similar posture. On 31 December 1940, Japanese foreign minister Yōsuke Matsuoka, a strong proponent of the Tripartite Pact, told a group of Jewish...
    119 KB (15,285 words) - 02:27, 21 October 2024
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    to recognize Manchukuo, the Japanese delegation led by ambassador Yosuke Matsuoka walked out. Japan gave formal notice of its withdrawal from the League...
    13 KB (1,587 words) - 19:46, 29 October 2024
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    Minister Mitsumasa Yonai Preceded by Tsuneo Kanemitsu Succeeded by Yōsuke Matsuoka In office 7 April 1939 – 30 August 1939 Prime Minister Kiichirō Hiranuma...
    17 KB (1,610 words) - 20:38, 6 November 2024
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    decision was reached (owing to illness or disease): Osami Nagano, Yosuke Matsuoka All imprisoned war criminals either had their sentences commuted or...
    72 KB (8,731 words) - 06:40, 12 November 2024
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    June 1941. Shigemitsu was highly critical of the foreign policies of Yōsuke Matsuoka, especially the Tripartite Pact, which he warned would further strengthen...
    15 KB (1,353 words) - 22:13, 1 May 2024
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    purposes. Arita emphasized on the economic aspects, at the behest of Yōsuke Matsuoka, whilst Konoe emphasized on pan-Asian unity. After the surrender of...
    8 KB (733 words) - 09:06, 10 May 2024
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    Hitler's Nazi Germany were refused when foreign minister of Japan Yōsuke Matsuoka stated that: "Nowhere have I promised that we would carry out his anti-Semitic...
    61 KB (7,547 words) - 01:59, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fumimaro Konoe
    and increased aid to Chiang. Despite this response, foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka signed the Tripartite Pact on 27 September 1940, over the objection...
    61 KB (7,941 words) - 06:02, 5 November 2024
  • Japanese baron and politician Yōsuke Matsuoka (松岡 洋右, 1880–1946), Japanese diplomat and politician Akiyoshi Matsuoka (松岡 昭義, born 1945), Japanese cross-country...
    7 KB (807 words) - 09:23, 25 September 2024
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    political as they were military. During this period, Tojo became close to Yōsuke Matsuoka, the fiery ultra-nationalist CEO of the South Manchuria Railway, one...
    86 KB (10,554 words) - 05:23, 14 November 2024
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    opposed to the political and diplomatic actions of Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka and to the Tripartite Pact concluded between Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany...
    18 KB (1,899 words) - 16:41, 9 November 2024
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    and subsequently earned the favor of Japanese politicians such as Yōsuke Matsuoka, who viewed the lackluster British response as further encouragement...
    193 KB (24,582 words) - 18:46, 8 November 2024
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    1956, and pardoned in 1977. Died in 2006. Minister of Foreign Affairs Yōsuke Matsuoka: Died in prison in 1946, before he could be brought to trial. Marshal...
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