Korechika Anami (February 21st, 1887 - August 15th, 1945) was a Général Japan board during the Second world war.

Political career

In April 1945, he becomes Minister for the War of Japan, he has great capacities as a member of the Japanese Cabinet and a supreme adviser of the direction of the war. He was known as the leader who hated the idea of Reddition and ordered the arrest of those which spoke about it. Some speak about him today like “the true model of a modern Samurai”.

After several defeats and the atomic bombardments of Hiroshima and the Soviet invasion, the Supreme council of war analyzed at the request of the Empereur Showa, the possibilities of accepting the Déclaration of Potsdam and of proceeding to the rendering of the Empire.

Anami planned this rendering only unless adding four conditions which he considered essential: the disarmament of the troops by the Japanese authorities, the judgment of the criminals by the Japanese authorities, the absence of occupying forces in Japanese ground and the safeguarding of the imperial mode and the Emperor. It was supported by the chief of staff of the army Yoshijiro Umezu and the chief of staff of the navy Soemu Toyoda. In the absence of these four conditions, it considered that a great battle is carried out on the Japanese ground which would cause many disasters to the Alliés and would make it possible Japan to avoid rendering and to perhaps even keep what it conquered.

Other half of the council carried out by the Suzuki Prime Minister wished as for it only one condition: the maintenance of the imperial institution. It is this camp which carried it following the intervention of the emperor.

A few days before rendering, from the Officier S came to see it to propose a to him Coup d'etat, but Anami refused, and ordered with its officers to give up their project, saying later to his/her brother-in-law, “like a Japanese soldier, I must obey my emperor. ” August 14th, 1945, it signed the treaty of rendering with the remainder of the Cabinet, then it was made Seppuku early the next morning.