In February 1944, he was hand-picked by Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to serve as Vice Chief of the General Staff a member of the Supreme War Council, Inspector-General of Army Aviation and Chief of the Army Aeronautical Department within the Army Ministry, as he had been a close protégée of Tojo from his early days in the Army.
In February 1944, he was personally selected by Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to assume the role of Vice Chief of the General Staff, a member of the Supreme War Council, Inspector-General of Army Aviation, and head of the Army Aeronautical Department within the Ministry of the Army, as he had been a close protégé of Tojo from his early days in the military.