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Hirobumi Ito [r]: Add brief definition or description
Aritomo Yamagata [r]: In the Meiji Restoration, architect of the Imperial Japanese Army, military commander and three-time Chief of Staff; Three-time President of the Privy Council; two-time Prime Minister of Japan and genro (elder statesman) of immense influence ^[e]
Tsuyoshi Inukai [r]: (1855 - 1932) Japanese civilian political leader, belonging to constitutionalist movements; Prime Minister 1931-1932 but assassinated in the May 15 incident ^[e]
Giichi Tanaka [r]: Japanese military officer, statesman, and Prime Minister in 1929; cabinet resigned to protest increasing militarization and the assassination of Chang Tso-Lin ^[e]
Fumimaro Konoe [r]: Prince and Japanese statesman, close to Emperor Hirohito; fascist politics but generally opposed to war with the U.S.; Prime Minister twice; asked to serve in postwar government but committed suicide before he was arrested as a war criminal ^[e]
Hideko Tojo [r]: Add brief definition or description
Kantaro Suzuki [r]: Last Prime Minister of Japan before its surrender in 1945; Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy including Commander-in-Chief, Combined Fleet; became a Palace official in 1929; resigned after escaping death in the February 26, 1936 Incident; returned as member of the Privy Council in 1944 and twice was its President ^[e]

Yukio Hatoyama [r]: (鳩山由紀夫 Hatoyama Yukio) former Prime Minister of Japan and ex-leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (2009-2010); led the party to its first election victory, ousting the Liberal Democratic Party of which he was a former member after 55 years of near-uninterrupted rule (born 1947). ^[e]
Kunio Hatoyama [r]: (鳩山邦夫 Hatoyama Kunio) Japanese politician and younger brother of Yukio Hatoyama, also a politician. ^[e]

Democratic Party of Japan [r]: (民主党 Minshutou) political party formed in 1998 through the merger of parties in opposition to the governing Liberal Democratic Party, including former members of the LDP; won the 2009 Japanese general election and formed a coalition government, but lost heavily to the LDP in 2012. ^[e]
March 1931 Incident [r]: Failed 1931 coup by Imperial Japanese Army young officer group that wanted to install the head of the Control faction as Prime Minister of Japan ^[e]
Nanking Incident of 1927 [r]: Attacks, on 24 March 1927, by Chinese Nationalist Revolutionary Army attack on the Japanese, American and British consulates in Nanking; used as a casus belli for deployment of Japanese troops to China ^[e]
Kwangtung Army [r]: Imperial Japanese Army formation that initially garrisoned the Kwangtung Leasehold, and, after Japan took control of Manchuria, was their major force there and fighting China; contained some of the most hard-line officers ^[e]