deaths
September 12, 1945
Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (born 1880)
Hajime Sugiyama
Hajime Sugiyama was a Japanese field marshal and one of Japan's military leaders for most of the Second World War.
Army Ministry
The Army Ministry , also known as the Ministry of War, was the cabinet-level ministry in the Empire of Japan charged with the administrative affairs of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). It existed from 1872 to 1945.