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Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

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Hideki Tojo
Age: 63 †
Born: 1884
Born: December 30
Died: 1948
Died: December 23
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