Naruhiko Higashikuni

Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887 – 1990) was anxtremely influential Japanese aristocrat, usually known as Prince Higashikuni, active in many of the secret political plots leading to World War Two in the Pacific. He was the uncle of, and an advisor to Emperor Hirohito, a field marshal, Imperial Japanese Army; briefly Prime Minister of Japan for the "surrender cabinet".

He accompanied the young Prince Hirohito on his 1921 trip to Europe. Also in 1921, while it has never been absolutely confirmed he was physically present, he definitely sponsored the meeting of Three Crows, a group of influential military attaches that named eleven more officers, the "Eleven Reliables", for further clandestine work.