The newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at what was on the minds of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of ...

A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese ...

Instead, General Hideki Tojo and 27 Imperial military officers and Japanese officials were charged, while Hirohito was allowed to stay on the throne and remain in power as the reigning emperor ...

A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian said is the first look at the thinking of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and then-Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo on the ...

A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese ...

11, 1945, they found Hideki Tojo struggling to stand despite ... in a decision that is still controversial, chose not to try Emperor Hirohito so that he could remain on the throne and provide ...

Hirohito’s son, former Emperor Akihito, devoted his reign to ... and said Japan should stop supporting Ukraine. Others said Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime prime minister who was later ...

Generals Hideki Tojo and Kuniaki Koiso. He called on the Emperor Hirohito, bowed reverentially, and reported, according to Radio Tokyo, on a “general jurisdictional matter.” The Premier and ...

The walls close in on Hideki Tojo. The General turned Prime Minister takes hands-on control of the military, with catastrophic consequences. Emperor Hirohito pulls the plug. With Tojo forced out ...