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Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...
The major point of controversy is the enshrinement in 1978 of 14 Class-A war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who were held responsible for planning and directing the war.
Prime Minister Hideki Tojo of Japan was the most significant advocate for a preemptive strike against the United States at Pearl Harbor.
The tribunal issued 61 sentences including life sentences against former Rwanda Prime Minister Jean Kambanda and former Family Minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko - the first woman convicted of genocide.
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 ...
Fortnight ago a bald little Japanese general nicknamed The Razor became Premier of Japan. Hideki Tojo's* sparse mustache looks as if it might blow off in a stiff breeze and his tortoise-shell ...
For years, a rumor has spread online that a Disney short film featured Donald Duck dreaming of working in a factory in Nazi Germany. For instance, in late August 2024, one X user mentioned Donald ...
Hideki Takeuchi’s clunkily titled “What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister” indulges in some wishful thinking on that front.
Seven, including Japan’s wartime prime minister, Hideki Tōjō, were sentenced to death. That judgement, however, rested on countless other judgements made before the trials convened—all of them deeply ...
On Dec. 23, 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of the Allied War Crimes Commission.
They failed to reach unanimous verdicts. Of the 25 defendants who survived the trial, all were convicted and seven were hanged, including the prime minister, Tojo Hideki.