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TABLE

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Leaders of the Cabinet Planning Board, October 23, 1937October 31, 1943

Cabinet

President and vice-president of board

Remarks

First Konoe 10/371/39

Taki Masao

Postwar member of the House of Representatives of the Diet.

Aoki Kazuo

Finance bureaucrat. Minister of finance, Abe cabinet. Ambassador to Nanking, 1940. Minister of greater East Asia, Tojo * cabinet. Postwar member of House of Councillors, Diet.

Hiranuma

1/398/39

Aoki Kazuo

Takebe Rokuzo*

See above.

Home ministry bureaucrat. Director, General Affairs Agency, Manchukuo, 194045. Prisoner in USSR, 194556.

Abe

8/391/40

Aoki Kazuo

Takebe Rokuzo

Concurrently finance minister.

See above.

Yonai

1/407/40

Takeuchi Kakichi

Uemura Kogoro*

MCI bureaucrat.

Postwar chairman, Fuji Television, Japan Airlines. President of Keidanren, 1968.

Second Konoe 7/404/41

Hoshino Naoki

Finance bureaucrat. Chief cabinet secretary, Tojo cabinet.

Obata Tadayoshi

Sumitomo zaibatsu.

Second Konoe 4/417/41

Suzuki Teiichi

Lt. General. Convicted class A war criminal. Released 1956.

Miyamoto Takenosuke

Home ministry bureaucrat. Engineer.

Third Konoe 7/4110/41

Suzuki Teiichi

Abe Genki

See above.

Home ministry bureaucrat.

Former chief, Special Higher Police. Lost election as LDP candidate for House of Councillors, 1956.

Tojo

10/4110/43

Suzuki Teiichi

Abe Genki

See above.

See above.

NOTE

: On December 6, 1940, in the second Konoe cabinet, the president of the CPB was given cabinet-level rank as a minister of state (

kokumu daijin

).