Office of the Historian

894.00/1111: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, October 18, 1941—4 p.m.
[Received October 18—5:36 a.m.]

1652. The composition of the Tojo Cabinet was announced this afternoon as follows:

Prime, War and Home Ministers: Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo; Foreign and Overseas, Shigenori Togo; Finance, Okinori Kaya; Navy, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada; Justice, Michiyo Iwamura; Education, Kunihiko Hashida; Agriculture, Hiroya Ino; Commerce and Industry, Shinsuke Kishi; Communications and Railways, retired Vice Admiral Ken Terashima; Welfare, Surgeon General Chikahiko Koizumi; Without Portfolio, Lieutenant General Teiichi Suzuki.

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