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The 21st General Election of Japan of the House of Representatives took place in Japan on April 30 1942. It was the only election in Japan during the Pacific theater of World War II. At this time the lower house no longer had any significant executive and legislative power and power had increasingly gone to the military since the Manchurian Incident the invasion of Manchuria by the Imperial Army without regard to the (then still civilian) cabinet in 1931.
