was a Japanese physician and physiologist. Hashida was born in Tottori in 1882. He became a medical professor of

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. He also became the Headmaster of the First Higher School in 1937. He served as the Minister of Education from 1940 to 1943 under the

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and Tōjō cabinets. After

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, Hashida came under suspicion of war crimes committed during his tenure as minister during the war. Hashida denied wrongdoing and committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide.

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