Editing Senjūrō Hayashi (section)

==Political career==
[[File:List of Ideological Criminal Probation offices in Imperial Japan (思想犯保護観察所一覧、大日本帝国).jpg|thumb|200px|List of Ideological Criminal Probation Offices installed for [[Censorship in Japan|censorship]] by the [[Ideological Criminal Probation Act]] established under the [[Hirota Cabinet]] in 1936.]]
From 1934 to 1935 Hayashi was [[Ministry of War of Japan|Army Minister]], and again member of the Supreme War Council from 1935 until his retirement the next year.

As Army Minister, Hayashi was a supporter of Major General [[Tetsuzan Nagata]], who was Chief of Military Bureau and the leader of the ''[[Tōseiha]]'' faction within the Imperial Japanese Army.{{according to whom|date=July 2021}} The ''Tōseiha'' scored a victory in July 1935 when General [[Jinzaburō Masaki]], one of the leaders of the ''[[Kōdōha]]'' faction was removed as Inspector General of Military Training. But Nagata was assassinated the next month (the [[Aizawa Incident]]). The struggle between the ''Tōseiha'' and ''Kōdōha'' factions continued below the surface of the government; and the war in North China carried on apace until February 1936.

Hayashi also promoted [[Fumimaro Konoe]]'s doctrines, as a "right-winger" amongst the [[militarist]]s, against "left-winger" radical militarists, led by [[Kingoro Hashimoto]], wanted to establish a [[Military Shogunate]] through revolutionary means.

Hayashi was also the president of the Greater Japan Muslim League (大日本回教協会, Dai Nihon Kaikyō Kyōkai).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ajames/28/2/28_KJ00008584589/_pdf|title=Islamic Research Institutes in Wartime Japan|format=pdf|access-date=2023-08-09}}</ref>