Korechika anami biography of donald

          Korechika Anami was born on 21 February in Taketa, Oita Prefecture, Japan..

          General Korechika Anami, Army bureaucrat and War Minister in the Suzuki Cabinet; and Vice Admiral Takejiro Onishi, originator of Kamikaze (“divine wind,” i.e.

        1. General Korechika Anami, Army bureaucrat and War Minister in the Suzuki Cabinet; and Vice Admiral Takejiro Onishi, originator of Kamikaze (“divine wind,” i.e.
        2. Anami Korechika, 21 February – 25 January ) was a Japanese general who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 15 August to his death.
        3. Korechika Anami was born on 21 February in Taketa, Oita Prefecture, Japan.
        4. Anami, Korechika, born in Taketa on and where his father, Nao Anami, was a senior bureaucrat in the Home Ministry and Korechika grew up in Tokyo.
        5. "I am convinced that the Americans had only one bomb, after all." - Korechika Anami, immediately after the drop of Little Boy over Hiroshima.



          6. General Anami became the War Minister of Japan in April 1945. As the highest ranking member of the Japanese Army, he was one of the most powerful men in Japan. As War Minister, Anami was a member of Japan's Cabinet (the decision making body of the national government).

          He was also a member of the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, known as the Big 6 since it had six members. The Big 6 was highly influential upon the Cabinet.

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          From the time he became Minister of War, Anami was the leader of those who wished to avoid surrender at any cost. He ordered the arrest of many who dared speak of peace. Surrender was unthinkable to him; he has been called "the very model of a modern samurai" (Lester Brooks, "Behind Japan's Surrender", pg.

          44).

          Anami, Korechika, born in Taketa on and where his father, Nao Anami, was a senior bureaucrat in the Home Ministry and Korechika grew up in Tokyo.

          With a string of major battle losses and the U.S. destruction of Japanese cities from the air during 1945, Japanese leaders agreed that a new approach to the war was needed. Some sought to end the war. But for Anami, this meant staki