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Following the war’s outbreak, Sugiyama was responsible for directing the Army’s ensuing military operations. In a matter of months, the Empire of Japan conquered a broad swathe of territory in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific including Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Burma, and the Philippines.
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By the beginning of 1943, the tide of the conflict had turned against the Japanese after their forces were decisively defeated at the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal. In the same year, Sugiyama was awarded the honorary rank of
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On 3 June 1938, Sugiyama left his position as Army Minister to become a member of Japan's Supreme War Council. In December 1938, he briefly left the Council to assume command over the
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which attempted to make Ugaki Prime Minister. Later that year, as Under Secretary of the Army, he made an official announcement defending the actions of the military in the
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After Tōjō's ouster in 1944, Sugiyama again became Army Minister in the new cabinet of Prime Minister Kuniaki Koiso. In July 1945, he was asked to take command of the
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in May 1925 and appointed Director of the Bureau of Military Affairs in 1928. Within the same timeframe, he also became a leading figure in the Army's
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in 1912, disguised as a civilian trading company employee, and disguised as an Imperial Japanese Navy lieutenant, joined in an inspection tour of the
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expansion into Asia and the Pacific, General Sugiyama was one of the leading Army officers lobbying for war with the West. On September 5, 1941,
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As the war fronts collapsed on all sides, Sugiyama was relieved of his post as Chief of the General Staff on February 21, 1944, by General
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would be completed within three months. Nonetheless, by 1 December 1941, the Emperor ultimately gave his imperial sanction for war.
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challenged his confidence in a quick victory over the Western powers by berating him for erroneously predicting in 1937 that
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As Army Minister in 1937, Sugiyama was a driving force behind the launch of hostilities against China in retaliation for the
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cabinet until its dissolution in April 1945. Ten days after Japan's surrender on 2 September 1945, he committed suicide.
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in February 1944. Following Tojo's ouster in July 1944, he once again held the post of Army Minister in
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During his tenure, tensions between Japanese forces and the Chinese grew more severe. When
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from positions of authority and Sugiyama was promoted to full general in November 1936.
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in 1901. He served as a junior officer with 3rd Battalion of the 14th Regiment of the
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In February 1937, Sugiyama became Army Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister
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General Sugiyama inspecting Japanese landing sites in Shanghai, 1938
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and remained in that position under the succeeding Prime Minister,
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in 1915, where he met in secret with Indian independence activists
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in 1910, Sugiyama served in Section 2 (Intelligence) within the
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outbreak of hostilities in the Pacific theater of World War II
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By September 3, 1940, Hajime Sugiyama succeeded the elderly
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to the post of Army Minister, Sugiyama was sidelined to the
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in March 1933. However, the failed coup d'etat of the
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Sugiyama (left on first row), as minister of War in
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In 1924, Sugiyama became a protege of Army Minister
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Minister of the Army
Empire of Japan
Shōwa
Senjūrō Hayashi
Fumimaro Konoe
Kōtarō Nakamura
Seishirō Itagaki
Kuniaki Koiso
Hideki Tojo
Korechika Anami
Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army
General Staff

Shōwa
Fumimaro Konoe
Hideki Tojo
Prince Kan'in Kotohito
Hideki Tojo
Kokura
Fukuoka Prefecture
Japan
Order of the Golden Kite
Order of the Rising Sun
Empire of Japan
Imperial Japanese Army

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