Here's how the operation went. At 2:10 a.m. on Dec. 23, 1948, caskets carrying the bodies of Tojo and the six others were loaded on a 2.5-ton truck and taken out of the prison after fingerprinting ...

After U.S. soldiers broke down the door of his Tokyo residence on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 1945, they found Hideki Tojo struggling to stand despite a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Central NY News; War story: US vet speaks about preventing the suicide of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after WWII. Published: ; Sep. 10, 2010, 11:36 p.m.

Tojo was the Jap, the man who stabbed us in the back at Pearl Harbor. If America’s vision of Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was somewhat less complex than the real man, his ruthlessness more than ...

The location of executed wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s remains has been one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in Japan.

For more than 70 years, the location of the remains of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese prime minister who led his country’s war effort during World War II, was an enduring mystery.