Military Figures in Politics
- General Kazushige Ugaki: Prime Minister
- General Tanaka Giichi: Prime Minister
- General Hideki Tōjō: Prime Minister, War Minister and Home Minister
- General Sadao Araki: Radical ideologist, founder of Kodoha Party and Minister of Education
- Admiral Makoto Saito: Prime Minister
- Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto: Leader of Imperial Young Federation, Imperial Aid Association and Imperial Farmers Association
- Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai: Prime Minister
- General Nobuyuki Abe: Foreign Affairs Minister
- Lieutenant General Heisuke Yanagawa: Ministry of Justice and leader of the Imperial Aid Association
- Admiral Teijirō Toyoda: Commerce & Industry and Foreign Affairs Minister
- Lieutenant General Seizo Sakonji: Commerce & Industry Minister
- General Kuniaki Koizo: Prime Minister and partidaire of State Shintoism policy
- Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura: military policy, proposed how special ambassador in agreements with the United States
- General Hachirō Arita: ex-Foreign Affairs Minister and military thinker
- Colonel Hideo Iwakuro: member of Army Staaff, right-winger, and diplomatic Army supporter
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