About Kunihiko Hashida
Lived 1882 – 1945 (aged 62–63). Kunihiko Hashida was a Japanese physician, physiologist and politician.
was a Japanese physician and physiologist.
Hashida was born in Tottori in 1882. He became a medical professor of Tokyo Imperial University. He also became the Headmaster of the First Higher School in 1937.
Hashida (on the right) among German, Italian and Japanese children spoke of the Tripartite Pact. He served as the Minister of Education from 1940 to 1943 under the Konoe and Tōjō cabinets. After World War II, Hashida came under suspicion of war crimes committed during his tenure as minister during the war. Hashida denied wrongdoing and committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide.
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Who was Kunihiko Hashida?
Japanese physiologist and bureaucrat
When was Kunihiko Hashida born?
Kunihiko Hashida was born in 1882 in Tottori.
When did Kunihiko Hashida die?
Kunihiko Hashida died in 1945 in Ogikubo.
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Kunihiko Hashida was a physician, physiologist and politician.
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Kunihiko Hashida was Japanese.
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