Fumimaro Konoe
Always willing to help others from Aomori, his home in Xinjing (present day Changchun) was known as a "rōnin house". In 1942, he held secret meetings with Fumimaro Konoe and others in the upper levels of the Japanese government who hoped to bring a quick end to the Second Sino-Japanese War and an armistice with Kuomintang.