Yosuke Matsuoka

Yosuke Matsuoka was a diplomat best known for leading Japan's dramatic walkout from the League of Nations in 1933. As Foreign Minister in the Second Konoe Cabinet, he aggressively pushed for the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy to counter Western powers. He also negotiated the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact to execute his "Blitzkrieg Diplomacy." However, his confrontationist stance toward the United States ultimately escalated tensions, paving the way to the Pacific War. Indicted as a Class-A war criminal after the war, he passed away from illness before his trial concluded.

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Year	Yosuke Matsuoka
1880	Birth of Yosuke Matsuoka (Period: March 4, 1880, Location: Hikari City, Yamaguchi Prefecture (formerly Murozumi Village, Kumage District, Yamaguchi Prefecture))
1893	Study in the United States (Age: 12 years old, Period: 1893–1901, Location: Oregon, United States, etc.)
1904	Joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Service as a Diplomat (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1904–1921, Location: Shanghai, China; Russia; United States; Japan, etc.)
1918	Siberian Intervention (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1918–1922, Location: Russian Far East and Siberia)
1921	Appointment as Director of the South Manchuria Railway Company (Yosuke Matsuoka, Age: 40 years old, Period: 1921, Location: Northeastern China and Manchuria)
1930	Election to the House of Representatives (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1930, Location: 2nd District of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan)
1931	Manchurian Incident (Age: 50 years old, Period: September 1931–1933, Location: Northeastern China (Manchuria)) Mukden Incident (Age: 51 years old, Period: September 18, 1931, Location: Outskirts of Mukden (Present-day Shenyang), China)
1932	First Shanghai Incident (Age: 51 years old, Period: January–March 1932, Location: Shanghai, China)
1933	Withdrawal from the League of Nations (Age: 52 years old, Period: February–March 1933, Location: Geneva, Switzerland) Speech as Representative at the League of Nations Assembly and Walkout (Age: 52 years old, Period: February 24, 1933, Location: Geneva, Switzerland)
1935	Appointment as President of the South Manchuria Railway Company (Yosuke Matsuoka, Age: 54 years old, Period: 1935–1939, Location: Northeastern China and Manchuria)
1937	Second Sino-Japanese War (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1937–1945, Location: Various regions in China, especially North China, Central China, and South China)
1939	World War II (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Europe, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, etc. (no combat occurred within Turkey))
1940	Deterioration of Japan-US Relations and Deadlock in Diplomatic Negotiations (Age: 59 years old, Period: 1940–July 1941, Location: Tokyo, Japan; Washington, United States, etc.) Appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Second Konoe Cabinet (Yosuke Matsuoka, Age: 60 years old, Period: July 22, 1940, Location: Tokyo, Japan)
1941	Visit to Europe and Conclusion of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact (Age: 60 years old, Period: March–April 1941, Location: Berlin, Germany; Rome, Italy; Moscow, Soviet Union) Resignation as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Age: 61 years old, Period: July 18, 1941, Location: Tokyo, Japan)
1945	Indictment at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1945–1946, Location: Tokyo, Japan)
1946	Death of Yosuke Matsuoka (Age: 66 years old, Period: June 27, 1946)
Unknown	Marriage (Yosuke Matsuoka, Ryuko, Period: Details Unknown, Location: Details Unknown)

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CPC	Chen Duxiu Li Dazhao Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Zhu De Liu Shaoqi Peng Dehuai Lin Biao Deng Xiaoping Chen Yi
Korean anti-Japanese movement	Kim Il Sung Kim Won-bong Hong Beom-do Ji Cheong-cheon Yang Se-bong Choe Yong-gon Kim Chwa-chin
Pacific War	Fumimaro Konoe Hideki Tojo Yosuke Matsuoka Shigenori Togo Kantaro Suzuki Korechika Anami Isoroku Yamamoto Chuichi Nagumo Kichisaburo Nomura Saburo Kurusu Hirohito

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