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  Kiichiro Hiranuma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiichiro Hiranuma (平沼 騏一郎 Hiranuma Ki'ichirō, September 28, 1867–August 22, 1952) was a Japanese politician and the 35th Prime Minister of Japan from January 5, 1939 to August 30, 1939.
Hiranuma and Konoye proposed an alternative political way of radical collective dictatorship, where businessmen, radical militarists and some aristocrats managed the central government, with a paternalist social programme.
Hiranuma declared: "We should research the ancient rites in detail and consider their application in administrative affairs in general and the common life of the nation".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiranuma_Kiichiro   (760 words)

  
 Takeo Hiranuma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Takeo Hiranuma (平沼 赳夫 Hiranuma Takeo, born 3 August 1939 in Shinjuku, Tokyo) is a Japanese politician.
Kiichiro Hiranuma was Prime Minister of Japan until 30 August 1939, and, although married, had no biological children.
Hiranuma served as Vice Minister for the Ministry of Finance in 1987 and Minister of Transport in 1995.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Takeo_Hiranuma   (259 words)

  
 www.japanesehistory.de - Personal Homepage of Sven Saaler
The son of a low-ranking samurai retainer of the Tsuyama domain (Okayama Prefecture), Hiranuma graduated in 1888 from Tokyo University with a degree in English law.
He objected to the “internationalist” tendencies of Japan's party governments, opposing liberalism, democracy, and socialism as “foreign ideologies.” Hiranuma served as justice minister from September 1923 to January 1924 and was then appointed to the Privy Council.
Upon the conclusion of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in August 1939, the futility of the cabinet's European policy was exposed, and Hiranuma resigned.
www.japanesehistory.de /cabinets/HiranumaKiichiro.htm   (321 words)

  
 HIRANUMA, KIICHIRO, BARON. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
By 1926, Hiranuma was vice-president of the privy council.
He influenced Japan’s withdrawal from the League of Nations, the abrogation of the Washington Naval Treaty, and the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact.
After the abortive military coup of Feb., 1936, Hiranuma became president of the privy council.
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/hi/Hiranuma.html   (139 words)

  
 Kiichiro Hiranuma - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Kiichiro Hiranuma - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Militarists, wishing to have their own genro (advisers) around the Emperor as in past times, and seeing the last surviving genro Prince Kimmochi Saionji, linked to the Sumitomo industrial group, decided tp organized their own genro group.
Kiichiro Hiranuma, History, External links, 1867 births, 1952 deaths and People from Okayama Prefecture.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hiranuma_Kiichiro   (501 words)

  
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Takeo Hiranuma, the Economy, Trade and Industry Minister, made the blunt and potentially offensive comments while addressing a branch meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Mr Hiranuma - whose foster father Kiichiro Hiranuma served as a World War II prime minister - seemed to acknowledge the impact of his comments, prefacing his remarks by saying that "it will offend the honour of Botswana if I say this".
Mr Hiranuma said Japan was rated lower than Botswana "even though Japan is the largest aid donor" to the African nation.
www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/06/17/1023864402396.html   (318 words)

  
 HyperWar: IMTFE [Annex A-6]
The Defendants ARAKI, DOHIHARA, HATA, HIRANUMA, HIROTA, HOSHINO, ITAGAKI, KIDO, MATSUOKA, MATSUI, SHIGEMITSU, and SUZUKI, during July and August 1938, initiated a war of aggression and a war in violation of international law, treaties, agreements and assurances by attacking the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics in the area of Lake Khasan.
The Defendants ARAKI, DOHIHARA, HATA, HIRANUMA, ITAGAKI, KIDO, KOISO, MATSUI, MATSUOKA, MUTO, SUZUKI, TOGO, TOJO and UMEZU, during the summer of 1939, initiated a war of aggression and a war in violation of international law, treaties, agreements and assurances, by attacking the territory of the Mongolian People's Republic in the area of the Kalkhin-Gol River.
The Defendants ARAKI, DOHIHARA, HIRANUMA, HIROTA, HOSHINO, ITAGAKI, KIDO, MATSUOKA, MUTO, NAGANO, SHIGEMITSU and TOJO, on and after the 22nd September, 1940, waged a war of aggression and a war in violation of international law, treaties, agreements and assurances against the Republic of France.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/PTO/IMTFE/IMTFE-A6.html   (3509 words)

  
 Rundown of Japan's 14 Class-A war criminals
Shiratori was sentenced to imprisonment for life for waging wars of aggression, and war or wars in violation of international law.
Hiranuma was founder of the Kokuhonsha, a powerful militaristic and reactionary society.
He became president of the privy council in 1936, was prime minister in 1939, continued to serve as president of the privy council and was home minister in 1940.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-06/08/content_449596.htm   (1482 words)

  
 Preliminary Misogi Rite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another follower said: "Such a rite has marvelous power to make one forget all troubles, and give intelligence of crystalline clarity like the river waters." Religious ceremonies extended over five days, for mental clarification and forming the sacred place into an operative center for the "Japanese Spirit Training House".
These religious efforts were supported later by Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma who organized the "Shintoist Rites Research Council for the study of all primitive Shinto practices and the re-establishment of the ancient Japanese Gods.
These combined with political efforts in the Diet, where Chikao Fujisawa tried to establish Shinto as state religion in the ecountry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preliminary_Misogi_Rite   (346 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Hiranuma, Kiichiro, Baron (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Hiranuma, Kiichiro, Baron (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Hiranuma, Kiichiro, Baron[kE´´E´chErO hErA´nOOmA] Pronunciation Key, 1865–1952, Japanese statesman, founder of the Kokuhonsha, a powerful militaristic and reactionary society.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Hiranuma, Kiichiro, Baron
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 1939: Fascism - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
His resignation was due to the insistence of the army, unwilling to permit any interference with the measures it deemed necessary for building a 'new order' in Japan as well as in China.
The new Cabinet was headed by Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, the founder of the rightist Kokuhonsha Patriotic Society.
He maintained the closest relations with the army high command and with other Fascist and semi-Fascist patriotic groups in Japan.
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Cabinet Positions Cabinet Position From To Inukai War Dec 13, 1931 May 26, 1932 Saitō War May 26, 1932 Jan 23, 1934 1st Konoe Education May 26, 1938 Jan 5, 1939 Hiranuma Education Jan 5, 1939 Aug 30, 1939 Table 5Cabinet Positions Held by Araki Sadao see also: February 26 Revolt (pg.
The class officially ceased to exist in 1871, but unoffical discrimination did not end overnight.
Hiranuma Kiichirō Lived 28 Sept. 1867 to 22 Aug. 1952.
www.openhistory.org /jhdp/download/encyclopedia/0.3.3/ejh.txt   (16714 words)

  
 American Experience | Victory in the Pacific | Transcript | PBS
Then Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, an advisor to the Emperor, presented the report Togo had commissioned.
Edward Drea: Hiranuma's argument was the constitution was irrelevant.
They were derided by some as "emperor worshippers," but they knew what Baron Hiranuma meant by "imperial prerogatives".
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pacific/filmmore/pt.html   (10551 words)

  
 Reflections on German and American Foreign Policy, 1933-1945
His successor was Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, but Konoe's Anglophile Foreign Minister, Hachiro Arita, remained in office.
Hiranuma felt that -with American help Japanese moderates might prevent a world war, with its dangerous consequences for Japan.
Although Prince Konoe was fully aware of Hiranuma's failure, he thought that the Tripartite Pact had strengthened his position and would allow him to take a chance on the United States.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v06/v06p-41_Braun.html   (10117 words)

  
 EastSouthWestNorth: Japanese History Textbooks (2005 edition)
They account for a mere fraction of 1 per cent of the 2.46 million Japanese honoured at the Yasukuni Shrine - 14 entries in the paper files that symbolically enshrine the souls of that nation's war dead.
Fewer still would know details of the war crimes they were convicted of by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo (IMTFE) during trials held from 1946 to 1948.
Kiichiro Hiranuma was the founder of the nationalist society "Kokuhonsha" and a government minister.
www.zonaeuropa.com /20050328_2.htm   (4501 words)

  
 JPRI Occasional Paper No. 33   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
During his time at the prison, Dr. Stunkard interviewed many of the Class A prisoners and became well acquainted with them; for instance, as a farewell gift, Stunkard was given calligraphies of Buddhist texts—brushed in the classic Chinese fluid script—by Tojo Hideki [Fig.
8] and Baron Hiranuma Kiichiro, who were impressed by his interest in Zen Buddhism.
This curiosity also led to the physician's introduction by the prisoner Graf von Duerkheim—a German national held at Sugamo separate from the Japanese war criminals—to the well-known Zen scholar Daisetz Suzuki.
www.jpri.org /publications/occasionalpapers/op33.html   (7024 words)

  
 Prometheus-5.Org » Blog Archive » Yasukuni Shrine, A World Issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
And today, 1,000 Japanese POWs executed for war crimes and 14 Class-A war criminals who acording to the Shrine “were cruelly and unjustly tried as war criminals by a sham-like tribunal of the Allied forces” (see International Military Tribunal for the Far East) are also enshrined and worshiped at the Yasukuni Shrine:
Hideki Tojo, Seishiro Itagaki, Heitaro Kimura, Kenji Doihara, Iwane Matsui, Akira Muto, Koki Hirota, Yoshijiro Umezu, Kuniaki Koiso, Kiichiro Hiranuma, Toshio Shiratori, Shigenori Togo, Osami Nagano, Yosuke Matsuoka
The real nature of Japanese atrocities and war crimes have been documented extensively from eye witness accounts by foreigners and surviving victims elsewhere.
prometheus-5.org /blog/?p=21   (2409 words)

  
 China, Japan and International Tensions
Meanwhile, more Rightist organizations emerged as a counter to the values of prosperity and industrialized society.
One of these organizations was founded by Baron Hiranuma Kiichiro, vice president of the Privy Council, and his society sent representatives through Japan lecturing in favor of the revival of Japan's spiritual values.
Renewed Economic Troubles and Fears about China - Steps toward World War II Emperor Taisho, died late in the year of 1926, and a year later his son, Hirohito, ascended the throne.
www.fsmitha.com /h2/ch10.htm   (11725 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - War in Asia (Japan 1936 AAR with CORE 0.61)
As the former Prime Minister Okada Keisuke suffered a mental breakdown when he saw his son shot and himself in deadly peril for days, the bureaucrat Hirota Koki was named prime minister in the first days of March.
He was a weak Prime Minister as he hadn’t the backing of the military which favoured Hiranuma Kiichiro.
He wasn’t able to control the armed forces and even allowed an increase in military spending.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=109199   (4744 words)

  
 World Affairs Board - Surprise Attack At Pearl Harbor - Right Or Wrong?
Japan tried to protest, but it was already too late.
Political crisis erupted and cabinet of the prime minister Hiranuma Kiichiro was forced to step down (he was for the war with Russia first).
All political forces standing for the war with Russia were removed from power.
www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=596&pp=50   (5150 words)

  
 Akira Muto: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The 14 Class-A War Criminals Enshrined at Yasukuni
They are Kenji Doihara, Hirota Koki, Seishiro Itagaki, Heitaro Kimura, Iwane Matsui, Akira Muto, Hideki Tojo, Sadao Araki, Kingoro Hashimoto, Shunroku Hata, Kiichiro Hiranuma, Naoki Hoshino, Okinori Kaya, Koichi Kido, Kuniaki Koiso, Jiro Minami, Takasumi Oka, Hiroshi Oshima, Kenryo Sato, Shigetaro Shimada, Toshio Shiratori, Teiichi Suzuki, Yoshijiro Umezu, Mamoru Shigemitsu and Hideki Togo.
Akira Muto graduated from the Japanese Military Academy in 1912 and from the Japanese War College in 1920.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Muto_Akira_536837357.htm   (367 words)

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