uproar in Japan he was forced to resign as chief of the defense policy board of the LDP. He is particularly well known for his fierce opposition, along with 12 other far-right LDP Diet members, to Japan's ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty during the 1974–1976 session of the Diet, on the grounds that Japan might one day need to acquire its own nuclear arsenal. Genda died in Tokyo on 15 August 1989, exactly 44 years to the day after the Japanese surrender in World War II, and just one day short of his 85th birthday. He was married and had three children. References Notes Bibliography Peattie, Mark R., Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001, Prange, Gordon William; Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon. (1991) At dawn we slept: the untold story of Pearl Harbor, edition 60. Penguin Books. Roehrs, Mark D.; William A. Renzi (2004) World War II in the Pacific, edition 2. M.E. Sharpe. Shinsato, Douglas T. and Tadanori Urabe, For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Kamuela, Hawaii: eXperience, inc, 2001. . External links Goldstein and Dillon, The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans book review Green, Michael, Arming Japan text on Google Books. 1904 births 1989 deaths Military personnel from Hiroshima Prefecture Japanese military personnel of World War II Japanese naval aviators Imperial Japanese Navy officers Attack on Pearl Harbor Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Commanders of the Legion of Merit Chiefs of Staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Lockheed people Japanese naval attachés Lockheed bribery scandals