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Second Konoe cabinet

cabinet of Japan (1940–1941)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ11600810 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Second Konoe Cabinet is the 38th Cabinet of Japan led by Fumimaro Konoe from July 22, 1940 to July 18, 1941.

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The public source identifies “Second Konoe cabinet” as cabinet of Japan (1940–1941). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Second, Konoe and cabinet.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 1941—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-07-22. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Second, Konoe and cabinet providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11600810. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1940 and 1941.

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This entry incorporates text from “Second Konoe cabinet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.