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1941
October
18
Key event
Hideki Tōjō becomes Prime Minister
On 18 October 1941 General Hideki Tōjō, the War Minister who had refused to withdraw troops from China, became Prime Minister of Japan after Konoe resigned.
November
04
The Imperial Conference of 5 November
In early November 1941 Japan resolved on war with the US, Britain and the Netherlands if negotiations brought no result by 1 December.
December
02
“Climb Mount Niitaka”
On 2 December 1941 Tokyo signalled the fleet “Niitakayama nobore 1208”, fixing the attack for 8 December. The day before, an Imperial Conference had chosen war.
1943
December
29
The Andamans for Azad Hind
On 29 December 1943 Subhas Chandra Bose reached Port Blair in the Andamans, which Japan had handed to his Azad Hind government. Real power stayed Japanese.
1944
July
18
The fall of the Tōjō cabinet
On 18 July 1944, after the fall of Saipan, General Hideki Tōjō's cabinet resigned. On 22 July a government under Kuniaki Koiso and Mitsumasa Yonai was formed.