Japanese+Strategies

Japan's policies in the [|1940s]  were remarkable for their disastrously self-defeating nature despite several that proved to be a short term success. //Japan's grand strategy was based on the premise that it could not survive a war against the European powers without secure sources of natural resources, yet to secure those resources it decided to undertake the war that it knew it could not win in the first place//.  Moreover actions such as its brutality in China, and its practice of first setting up, and then undermining, [|puppet government] s in China were clearly antithetical to Japan's overall goals, and yet it continued to persist in them anyway. Finally, this march to self-destruction is remarkable in that many individuals within the Japanese political and military elite realized these self-destructive consequences, but were unable to do anything about the situation. Also, there appears to have been no debate over policy alternatives which might have enabled Japan to further its goals in China. **__Japanese strategies 1942-1945 __**  · Japan’s most significant strategy was to have a short war as they were aware that they did not have enough resources to sustain the war. This is demonstrated throughout their “Six months of glory” where the Japanese soldiers were attempting to surprise their enemies with attacks and thus gain their territory. ·  Japan’s another significant strategy was to occupy their surrounding nations and thus create a “defence perimeter” so that would be protected from future attacks.
 * Conflict in the Pacific – Japanese strategies: Military leaders and their proposed strategies 1942-1945 **

<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif';">General Hideki Tojo **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif';"> - Prime minister of **Japan** (October 1941 - July 1944). <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Naruhiko Higashikuni: ** <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Commander in Chief of the Home Defence Headquarters. And in 1945: Higashikuni was appointed the head of the surrender government. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Fumimaro Konoye **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: In 1919 he attended the  <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[|Paris Peace Conference] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Konoye became Japan's prime minister. He formed a coalition government and attempted to reduce the influence of the military leaders who were demanding an expansionist foreign policy. However, his government only lasted for seven months and he was replaced by <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[|Kiichiro Hiranuma] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. Konoye was recalled on 22nd July 1940. Along with his foreign minister, <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[|Yosuke Matsuoka] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, Konoye attempted to reach agreement with the <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[|United States] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. When this ended in failure, Konoye was replaced by General <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[|Hideki Tojo] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. In 1944 Konoye began to argue that the Japanese government should begin negotiations to bring about the end to the <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[|Second World War] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. He also led a peace delegation to Moscow but <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[|Vyacheslav Molotov] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> refused to see him. Konoye served as vice president in Japan's post-war surrender government. <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Kantaro Suzuki: __** <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">head of the surrender government <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Teijiro Toyoda **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">:  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">president of the Nittetsu-Nihon Iron Manufacturing Company and chairman of Tekko Toseikai Iron and Steel Company. Toyoda returned to power as foreign minister under <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[|Kantaro Suzuki] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (5th April 1945 - 17th August 1945). <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif';">
 * __<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif';">Military leaders: __**

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