1. General Nobuyuki Abe was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Prime Minister of Japan, and the last Governor-General of Korea.
19 Facts About Nobuyuki Abe
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Nobuyuki Abe's brother-in-law was Imperial Japanese Navy admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue.
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Nobuyuki Abe attended Tokyo No 1 Middle School followed by No 4 High School.
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Nobuyuki Abe was promoted to major in December 1908, becoming an instructor at the Army War College in September 1909.
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Nobuyuki Abe was promoted to lieutenant colonel in February 1915 and to colonel on 24 July 1918.
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Nobuyuki Abe served as the commander of the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment from 1918 to 1921.
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Nobuyuki Abe became secretary of the Army War College on 3 June 1921, and was promoted to major general on 15 August 1922.
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Nobuyuki Abe was appointed director of military service affairs in the Army Ministry on 28 July 1926 and was promoted to lieutenant general on 5 March 1927.
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Nobuyuki Abe later served as chief of the Military Affairs Bureau and as Vice Minister of the Army, which he had been appointed as on 10 August 1928.
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Nobuyuki Abe commanded the 4th Infantry Division from 22 December 1930.
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In January 1932, Nobuyuki Abe was appointed to command the Japanese Taiwan Army and was promoted to full general on 19 June 1933.
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Nobuyuki Abe was not the obvious first choice as prime minister after the collapse of the Hiranuma Kiichiro cabinet.
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The interim War Minister General Nobuyuki Abe was a compromise choice.
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Nobuyuki Abe had the advantage of belonging to neither the Toseiha nor the Kodoha political factions within the Army and was supported as a relative political moderate by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Nobuyuki Abe opposed to efforts by elements within the Army to form a political-military alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Increasingly lacking in support from either the military or the political parties, Nobuyuki Abe was replaced by Mitsumasa Yonai in January 1940.
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Three months later after his replacement as Prime Minister, Nobuyuki Abe was sent by the army as a special envoy to China to advise the Japanese-supported regime of Wang Jingwei in Nanjing and to negotiate a treaty ensuring Japanese economic and military rights in northern China.
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Nobuyuki Abe remained as the Japanese ambassador to China in Nanjing until December 1940.
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Nobuyuki Abe was appointed the 10th Governor-General of Korea in 1944 and 1945.