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Cabinet
President and vice-president of board
Remarks
First Konoe 10/371/39
Taki Masao
Postwar member of the House of Representatives of the Diet.
Aoki Kazuo
Finance bureaucrat. Minister of finance, Abe cabinet. Ambassador to Nanking, 1940. Minister of greater East Asia, Tojo * cabinet. Postwar member of House of Councillors, Diet.
Hiranuma
1/398/39
Aoki Kazuo
Takebe Rokuzo*
See above.
Home ministry bureaucrat. Director, General Affairs Agency, Manchukuo, 194045. Prisoner in USSR, 194556.
Abe
8/391/40
Aoki Kazuo
Takebe Rokuzo
Concurrently finance minister.
See above.
Yonai
1/407/40
Takeuchi Kakichi
Uemura Kogoro*
MCI bureaucrat.
Postwar chairman, Fuji Television, Japan Airlines. President of Keidanren, 1968.
Second Konoe 7/404/41
Hoshino Naoki
Finance bureaucrat. Chief cabinet secretary, Tojo cabinet.
Obata Tadayoshi
Sumitomo zaibatsu.
Second Konoe 4/417/41
Suzuki Teiichi
Lt. General. Convicted class A war criminal. Released 1956.
Miyamoto Takenosuke
Home ministry bureaucrat. Engineer.
Third Konoe 7/4110/41
Suzuki Teiichi
Abe Genki
See above.
Home ministry bureaucrat.
Former chief, Special Higher Police. Lost election as LDP candidate for House of Councillors, 1956.
Tojo
10/4110/43
Suzuki Teiichi
Abe Genki
See above.
See above.
NOTE
: On December 6, 1940, in the second Konoe cabinet, the president of the CPB was given cabinet-level rank as a minister of state (
).
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The most famous product of the CPB was the National General Mobilization Law (Kokka Sodoin * Ho*, law number 55, introduced in the Diet on February 24, 1938, passed April 1, 1938, and put into effect May 5, 1938). It was more than an economic law. It was intended as a replacement for the munitions law of 1918, but it actually authorized the complete reorganization of the society along totalitarian lines. According to Murase, its drafter was Uemura Kogoro*.
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