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Historical Japan Leaders (Discontinued)
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Historical Japan Leaders (Discontinued)

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Originally posted by Molotoff:
In the Empire of Japan from 1936 to 1945, prime ministers were of great importance to the administration.

Mod adding prime ministers for Japan...

Some Questions and Answers
Why did you feel the need to do this mod?

- Because everyone deserves to play a historical game...

Where is other leader portraits?

- Work in progress, no worries...

Ironman Compatible?

- No, because mod changing history files in the game.


List of Prime Ministers

  • Naval officer, statesman. Born in Fucui, the son of a samurai of the Fucui Clan. He graduated from the Naval War College. After serving as director of the Naval Personnel and Fleet Control Bureaus, director-general of the Fleet Control Department, and Vice Minister of Navy, he became an admiral and commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet in 1924. In 1927, he was commissioned Minister of Navy in the Giichi Tanaka cabinet, but in 1929 resigned from that post and became a military councillor. During the London Naval Conference on disarmament in 1930, he showed his skill as a mediator. After serving as the Minister of Navy for the Saito cabinet in 1932, he assumed the office of Prime Minister and Minister of Overseas Affairs concurrently in 1934. During February 26 Incident in 1936, he was assaulted by young army officers, narrowly escaping death. As a senior statesman, he was involved in the negotiations for ending the war. His son-in-law was the postwar statesman Hisatsune Sakomizu.


  • Diplomat, statesman. Born in Fukuoka, the son of a stonemason and adopted into the Hirota Family. After studying at the First Higher School and graduating from the Tokyo Imperial University, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1923, he became director of the Europe and America Department. Later, after serving as minister to Holland, ambassador to the Soviet Union, and other posts, he entered the Saito cabinet as a successor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Uchida in 1933. He remained in that position in the Okada cabinet. In March 1936, he became Prime Minister in the reorganization of the cabinet just after February 26 Incident, but the cabinet resigned en masse the following January. In the same year, he became a member of the House of Peers. In the first Konoe cabinet, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs. After World War II, convicted as a class-A war criminal, he became the only civil official sentenced to death by International Military Tribunal for the Far East.


  • Military officer. Born in Ishikawa, the son of a former Kanazawa Clan samurai. He graduated from the preparatory course of the Fourth High School, the Military Academy and the Army War College. He served in the Russo-Japanese War. He successively held military posts including chief of the Army War College, commander of the Imperial Guard Division, commander of the Japanese forces stationed in Korea, and in 1932, he became an army general. He served as War Minister in the Saito and Okada cabinets. In February 1937, he became Prime Minister. While his cabinet held a basic policy of the unity of religion and state except political parties, deliberations in the parliament were bogged down and he dissolved the parliament. As the opposition party swept the subsquent election, his cabinet resigned in May. It was a short-lived cabinet with a term of only four months.


  • Statesman. Born in Tokyo in a high ranked noble family. His father was a koshaku (prince), Atsumaro Konoe. He studied under Hajime Kawakami at the Kyoto Imperial University. In 1916 he became a member of the House of Peers as koshaku (prince). In attendance on Kinmochi Saionji, he attended the Paris Peace Conference. In 1931 he became vice chairman of the House of Peers and in 1933 he became its president. In 1937 he formed the first Konoe cabinet. With the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in July the same year, Japan went into all-out war with China and as a central figure of the shintaisei movement (to establish a new political system modeled on the German Nazis) he served as Prime Minister three times. In 1940, the Taisei Yokusankai (Imperial Rule Assistance Association) was established and the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy was concluded under his cabinet. After World War II, he was suspected of being a class-A war criminal, but he committed suicide just before being arrested.


  • Judicial official, statesman. Born in Okayama, the son of a samurai of the Tsuyama Clan. In 1888, he graduated from the Law College of Imperial University of Tokyo. After serving as director of Tokyo Kosoin (high court), public prosecutor of Daishin'in(the Supreme Court), director of Minkei-kyoku (civil affairs and criminal affairs bureau) of the Ministry of Justice, and other posts, he became Vice-Minister of Justice in 1911. In 1912, he became public prosecutor general and vice-chairman of the Provisional Legislative Council in 1919. In 1921, he became chief of Daishin'in(the Supreme Court). In 1923, he became Minister of Justice in the second Yamamoto cabinet. In the following year, he was selected as a member of the House of Peers by Imperial command, and appointed as privy councillor. In addition, from that year, he advocated reactionary Japanism, and presided over the Kokuhonsha.Later, he successively was vice-chairman of the Privy Council and later its chairman. He became Prime Minister in 1939. After World War II, he was sentenced to imprisonment for life as a class-A war criminal.


  • Military officer and statesman. Born in Ishikawa Prefecture, the son of a samurai of the Kanazawa Clan. He studied at the Military Academy and the Army War College. After serving as Army War College instructor, administration director of the General Staff Office, director of the Military Affairs Bureau, he was appointed Vice Minister of War in 1928 and assisted the War Minister, Kazushige Ugaki, in the Hamaguchi cabinet. While Ugaki was sick and unable to serve, he was acting Deputy Minister of War. Later, he served as the fourth troop commander and the Taiwan Army commander. In 1933, he became army general and military councillor. In 1939, he became Prime Minister and concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs, but after a little more than four months, the cabinet resigned en masse. Later, he was dispatched to China as special envoy to the government of Wang Zhao-ming, and then became president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Political Association. In 1944, he became the last governor-general of Korea.


  • Naval officer, statesman. Born in Iwate. He graduated from Morioka Middle School, Naval Academy and the Naval War College. He served in the Russo-Japanese War. He successively served as commander in chief of the Third Fleet, the Second Fleet, commanding officer of Yokosuka Division, etc., and in 1936, became commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. In the following year he becameMinister of Navy in the Hayashi cabinet and admiral, and remained in these positions during the first Konoe cabinet and the Hiranuma cabinet. In January 1940, he became Prime Minister and formed his own cabinet, but it resigned en masse in July the same year. After Tojo resigned, Yonai resumed his post as Minister of Navy in the Koiso cabinet.


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38 Comments
Captain Groovy ツ 10 Jun @ 6:51am 
Can this work with RT56 ?
Ackbaraddin  [author] 14 May, 2024 @ 2:25pm 
pc_suffering 16 Sep, 2023 @ 11:28pm 
I want to make a mod for East Asia coop, so gonna use it
Jesse 11 Feb, 2023 @ 8:20am 
Would you please add RT56 compatability
Phil Rambo the Driving Orangutan 17 Oct, 2022 @ 11:54am 
Can you do the same thing for Kodoha, but just have Sadao Araki be the Prime Minister the entire game?
Ackbaraddin  [author] 9 Oct, 2022 @ 3:07am 
@ZenFlakes56 Okay. But don't forget credit...
ZenFlakes56 8 Oct, 2022 @ 5:12pm 
Can I use these portraits? I can give credit if needed.
Microsoft Excel 2 Jul, 2022 @ 8:29pm 
Who's that bald guy on the bottom
Ackbaraddin  [author] 28 Jun, 2022 @ 11:04am 
@Phrog I will fix it. Thanks...
Phrog 28 Jun, 2022 @ 8:10am 
Could you make the Neutrality path better, with this mod it makes the neutrality path have a random leader instead of Emperor Showa Hirohito