Sadao Araki

Sadao Araki (Japanese荒木 贞 夫, * May 26, 1877; † November 2, 1966 ) was from a Japanese officer and exercised great influence in Japanese politics in the 1930s. After completing his studies at the Army Officers' School that he held these posts: Japanese military attaché in the Soviet Union, commander of the Kempeitai, chief of the Division 1 of the General Staff, Director of the Army Officer School and commander of the 6th Division. In the Cabinets of Inukai Tsuyoshi and Saitō Makoto, he was Defense Minister.

Araki was an ardent supporter of the emperor ideology. As such, he was at the head of the nationalist group Kōdōha whose young officers to Hashimoto Kingoro (桥本 欣 五郎) aspired to a military dictatorship in Japan. For this purpose, sparked nationalist -minded groups and the Kōdōha military and political events that aimed to put the Japanese government under pressure or eliminate. These so-called incidents of the March incident of 1931, the October incident (十月 事件) of the same year, the 15th May incident (五·一五 事件) of 1932 and finally the February incident in 1936 can expect be. Araki was involved in these incidents - 1931/32 Araki was Defense Minister in 1936, he was military advisor - and had been chosen by the young officers in the event of a successful coup d'etat in a central place its power alongside Hayashi Senjūrō ​​(林 铣 十郎, at that time Inspector-General of Education ) and Jinzaburō Masaki (真 崎 甚 三郎, at the time Deputy Chief of Staff ) exercise. After the failed coup attempt of February 1936, the army of supporters of the ultra-nationalist Kōdōha was cleaned. In this context, Araki was placed in the reserve.

Sadao Araki was a resolute officer, who was looking as a politician an authoritarian regime. Had he been the emergence of Japan in 1933 the League of Nations advocates, so he promoted as Minister of Education (from 1938) in the first cabinet of Konoe Fumimaro and later under Kiichiro Hiranuma the militaristic policy and a militaristic education of youth.

Due to his political activities, was born in Tokyo in 1877, in 1933 promoted to general and in the following year (1934 ) for Baron ennobled Araki Sadao indicted by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released early in 1955. He died in 1966.