By YASUJI NAGAI/ Senior Staff Writer
December 25, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, third from left in the front row, and members of his Cabinet pose together to mark the opening of the Imperial Diet session on Nov. 16, 1941. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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