Koki Hirota:

Prime Minister, Foreign Minister

1878-1948
Although he wished to be a soldier, after seeing in the Triple Intervention of the First post-Sino-Japanese war, which read, “Even diplomacy is important,” he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from Tokyo University Law. After consecutive jobs as Director of Western Affairs and ambassadors, he was inaugurated as Foreign Minister. In 1937, after the formation of his cabinet on February 26th, he was inducted as Prime Minister. He had his eye on an “Army Purge” but the army kept on pushing and the officers on active duty, cabinet ministers, and military authorities forced him to restore his forces. The following January there was mass resignation within the House of Lords and Parliament. The cabinet of Imperial Guards wanted him reappointed as Foreign Minister, but the magnification of the Second Sino-Japanese War couldn’t be contained and he resigned. In opposition to the Asian aggression, there were conspiracies for not controlling the lack of humanity exercised and as a civil official, was hung to death.