Make Yamamoto PM

Your challenge, with a POD of 1930 or later, is to make Yamamoto the prime minister of Japan before Pearl Harbor and thus avert war with the United States.
 
He would have to have been Navy Minister at some point in the '30s, after achieving flag rank for that to happen. Admiral Yonai (Navy Minister in several governments) was premier once in the late '30s, otherwise it was aristocrats or Army Generals in the job. The other problem is that he was very apolitical-other than being a strong opponent of the alliance with Germany and Italy-which didn't endear him to nationalists in Tokyo-with death threats coming, and thus his appointment to CINC-Combined Fleet. A joke in the IJN at the time was "Now he runs off to sea. He's got the whole fleet to guard him."
 
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