The head of the war ministry, former general in the quantung army, a man whose nickname was the razor. Now we hav in place the entire leadership that you're normally dealing with when you talk about this conflict. Tojo looks like your typical japanese hard liner general but not as far as some of those imperial way faction people. One thing that is for sure is that the emperor orders tojo to pursue diplomacy until the last possible minute and he follows the emperor's orders. But he's working with a dead line now. Automatically, things are going to happen unless something intervenes now. And the inertia we've been talking about has become almost unstoppable. The final break