5-6 November 1943. The conference was attended by Japanese delegates and delegates from collaborating regimes.

Left to right:
-) Ba Maw: Head of the State of Burma
-) Zhang Jinghui: Prime Minister of Manchukuo
-) Wang Jingwei: President of the Reformed Government of the Republic of China
-) Hideki Tojo: Prime Minister of Japan
-) Prince Wan Waithayakon: envoy from the Kingdom of Thailand
-) José P. Laurel: President of the Second Philippine Republic
-) Subhas Chandra Bose:  Head of State of Provisional Government of Free India (Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind)

Goal of this conference was to boost the relationship between Japan and other nations with granting them "independence", to make them more willing allies in the fight against the Western Allies.

Greater East Asia Conference

Mitsubishi G3M Type 96 "Rikko" Japanese attack air-plane. Extensively used in China, less known in the Pacific theatre.

Picture taken 1936.
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Mitsubishi G3M

Born on 19 January 1895, he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1916 and from the Army Staff College in 1928.

During the next few years, Chō was involved in several  attempts to overthrow the democratic government (directly and indirectly) with the goal to replace it with a state socialist regime to stamp out corruption.

When the war in China started, Chō was the commander of the 74th Infantry Regiment of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force.

During the Battle of Nanking, he was the aide-de-camp to Prince Asaka. It is thought that Chō was involved in the ordering of the massacres of the P.O.W.s, but it is not clear if it was at his own initiative or if Chō was following the prince's orders.

He was then sent to different other units, being involved in border incidents between the Soviet Union and Manchukuo, working at the Taiwan Army of Japan HQ and becoming the Chief of Staff of the Indochina Expeditionary Army from 1940 to 1941.

He participated in the strategic and tactical planning of the invasion of Southeast Asia.

During the Battle of Okinawa, Chō was the Chief of Staff of the 32nd Army. He favoured a high agressive response to the American landings and invasion instead of a passive defense. He persuaded General Mitsuru Ushijima to launch the disastrous 5 May 1945 counteroffensive. He committed ritual suicide alongside Ushijima on 22 June 1945 rather than surrender to the American forces.
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