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241: 216: 509:, Suzuki asserted that the outcome of a war would depend a quantitative analysis of Japan's economic and military power and that the American economic embargo caused Japan to have a supply less than three years of oil and other critical resources. Unless new resources could be secured, the Japanese industry would collapse, and the military would lose its capability of taking action, which would result in the loss of the Empire. Continuing to serve in the Hideki Tojo administration, he strongly pushed for the creation of the 196: 633: 612: 603: 621: 591: 25: 133: 456:. Suzuki was assigned command of the IJA 14th Infantry regiment in December 1936. Although he had been a bureaucrat and administrator, his entire career with little experience as a field commander and no combat experience caused the command of a field unit to be necessary for his further promotion. 419:
From 1934 to 1935, Suzuki served as an instructor at the Army Staff College and was assigned to the Cabinet Research Bureau from 1935 to 1936. He meanwhile co-authored a pamphlet outlining his theory for a "national defense state" to prepare for
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as it became apparent that the coup would not succeed. Although that earned him a spot close to Hideki Tojo, it also gained him the reputation as an "opportunist," which was resented by many in the Army, including his former classmate
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in September 1955 after the end of the American occupation and was pardoned by the Japanese government in 1958. He was requested to serve as an advisor by several industrialists, and was asked by
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to run for the post-war Diet of Japan, but Suzuki refused all offers to return to public life. However, he continued to be consulted on a private basis by conservative politicians, including
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In 1927, Suzuki started to become increasingly involved in internal political factions within the Army. In 1929, he joined the Isseki-kai, a clique that included
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prime minister. He then began to advocate a more aggressive policy in Manchuria and was one of the most vocal advocates for Japan's withdrawal from the
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Although retired from the military, Suzuki continued to serve as a Minister of State as Chair of the Cabinet Planning Board under the second and third
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and upon the recommendations of his uncle, began a military career instead. He graduated from the 22nd class in 1910 and from the 29th class of the
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from November 1937 to April 1938, but he remained in Tokyo with the Cabinet Research Bureau. From April 1936, he was nominal Chief-of-Staff of the
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of heart failure on July 15, 1989, at 100 years old. He was the last surviving defendant of the main Tokyo/Nuremberg trials, outliving
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from November 1920 to February 1922. As he was fluent in both English and Chinese, he was assigned to the China Bureau within the
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from August 1925 to December 1925 and to various locations in China from December 1926 to May 1927. he accompanied General
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in 1917. After his commission, he studied economics for a year and was briefly assigned to the Ministry of Finance.
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and was charged with Class A war crimes in December 1945 for his advocation of war at the October 1941
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based on stories told by his uncle, who was a colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army during the
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He became a major general in November 1937 and was assigned nominally to the staff of the
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in August 1940 but retired from military service in April 1941 and entered the reserves.
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faction which supported the attempted coup; however, he switched sides to the
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instead, and Suzuki resigned as Minister of State and became a member of the
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People convicted by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
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Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
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Japanese people convicted of the international crime of aggression
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for "planning to wage a war of aggression", he was sentenced to
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in 1936, Suzuki was initially regarded as a member of the
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Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd class
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Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
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Chiba Prefecture
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Empire of Japan
Imperial Japanese Army

Lieutenant General
World War II
lieutenant general
Imperial Japanese Army
House of Peers
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Chiba Prefecture
Manchuria
Russo-Japanese War
Tokyo Imperial University
Imperial Japanese Army Academy
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