Konoye fell from power and was replaced by Hideki Tojo.    From Wordnik.com.  [All War is a Crime and There are No "Good Wars"] Reference

Prince Konoye supported them, and so did Admiral Yonai, who saw only two alternatives: hard times or ruin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sealing Their Fate] Reference

Konoye told Grew that Emperor Hirohito knew of his initiative and was ready to give the order for Japan's retreat.    From Wordnik.com.  [All War is a Crime and There are No "Good Wars"] Reference

Prince Konoye said, “Fundamentally the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whirlwind] Reference

Konoye, in whose family it is said to be still preserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

Ambassador Grew records in his diary an account of the fall of Konoye.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

FDR thus flatly disregarded the advice of Grew and Craigie and refused any meeting with Konoye.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

At this moment Germany, displeased with the Konoye cabinet, was far from satisfied with the Tojo cabinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

Japan, Konoye argued, would have "no resort but to destroy the status quo for the sake of self-preservation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Freezerbox Magazine] Reference

Why did the President refuse to do anything toward even testing the possibilities of peace in the Konoye proposal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

Grew (a Herbert Hoover appointee) and Sir Robert Craigie, respectively both urged FDR to confer with Konoye and to agree to his terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

Konoye himself declared to Grew that he was determined to bring about a rehabilitation of American-Japanese relations no matter what the cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

There, Konoye promised Grew, he was prepared to give to Mr. Roosevelt assurances of such far-reaching character that they were certain to be accepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

He, his associates, his secretary, kept pressing for an answer, pointing out that if this failed, the Konoye cabinet would fall and that the hope of peace would never return.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

Soon, Konoye, the victim of a near-fatal assassination attempt, was forced out as premier in the early fall of 1941 and replaced by the pro-German, openly aggressive General Tojo Hideki.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

The other party - the moderates, led by the Japanese Premier Konoye - was for making the best terms possible with the United States and getting out of the China affair as best they could.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

New York Times dispatch on the fall of the Konoye cabinet observed that if Japan struck it would be at Siberia and that as far as the Allies and Japan were concerned it would not be an open war.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

He pleaded also that the existence of the Konoye Cabinet was bound up in the success of such a conference of Roosevelt and Konoye and that if Konoye went to Hawaii he would not dare return without an agreement, however drastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

In view of the fact that the United States and Great Britain were in a pathetic state of unpreparedness, why, when an offer, strongly urged by the American Ambassador, was made by Konoye, was it allowed to drag along unanswered?.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

According to that Report, on October 16 the War and Navy Departments advised Kimmel and Short that changes had taken place in the Japanese Cabinet - the fall of Konoye - and that there was a possibility of war between Japan and Russia, and, possibly.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

He had offered Prince Konoye a possible year of victories, but barely six months had passed when Kido Butai’s defeat at Midway ushered in the long and hopeless struggle to stave off defeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sealing Their Fate] Reference

As Prince Konoye said to the emperor in a discussion following his presentation of the “Konoye Memorial” in February 1945, “I think there is no alternative to making peace with the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Wars end] Reference

Asked by Prime Minister Prince Konoye in September 1940 to evaluate the nation’s prospects in a war with America, Yamamoto had replied: ‘I can run wild for the first six months or a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second or third year.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sealing Their Fate] Reference

Konoye - whose power base lay with big business that was suffering under the burdensome costs of the inconclusive land war in China and US economic sanctions - proposed a meeting with FDR in Honolulu in August 1941 (breaking centuries of Japanese tradition and rigid protocol by meeting with a foreigner outside of Japan) in order to get the US to lift its embargo on longtime petroleum, iron ore and scrap metal exports to Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

"It seems to me highly unlikely that this chance will come again or that any Japanese statesman other than Prince Konoye could succeed in controlling the military extremists in carrying through a policy which they, in their ignorance of international affairs and economic laws, resent and oppose.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

Konoye, and ordered a copy of it to be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

Konoye, Fumimaro, 102, 330.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Wars end] Reference

Konoye, Prince of Japan, 269.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whirlwind] Reference

The cabinet of Prime Minister Konoye was dissolved to get rid of Matsuoka and those who had supported him.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

The Japanese Prime Minister Konoye on that day invited the American Ambassador Grew to dinner at the house of a friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

Prime Minister Konoye called in Ambassador Joseph Grew and secretly offered to meet FDR in Juneau or anywhere in the Pacific.    From Wordnik.com.  [All War is a Crime and There are No "Good Wars"] Reference

In February 1945, for example, the former premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye presented a memorial to the throne an official message to the emperor that reviewed the status of the war and concluded that Japan had to end it or face an internal Communist revolution afterward.24 The government as a whole, however, did not systematically attempt to exit the conflict or probe the possibilities of a negotiated settlement until the late spring of 1945, well after the war had become unwinnable and the home islands were being devastated through incendiary attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Wars end] Reference

The succeeding governments of Japan have proved the existence of such a plan, beyond a shadow of doubt, and when you consider, that only last summer, ostensibly fed up of the domination by the military clique, the Emperor of Japan invited a cultured, liberal, well-informed young civilian, Prince Konoye to head the government, upon the advice of the last remaining elder statesman, Prince Saionji, the world breathed a sigh of relief, because, there was no question in the minds of the Chancellories of Europe but that the advent of the civilian government to power in Japan would bring the moderation of the Japanese foreign policy throughout the Far East and more particularly towards China and Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conflicting Interests of China, Japan and Russia in the Far East] Reference