On August 15th Emperor Hirohito at last admitted defeat ... bombing shuttle service” running to Japan’s home islands. Tojo Hideki, infamous general and wartime prime minister, grasping ...

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 ...

Hideki Tojo’s* sparse mustache ... and could not be disposed of without offense to the Emperor’s sacrosanct person. Last week it was announced that the Tojo Government would ask the Diet ...

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 ...

But that never happened. 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 ...

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 ...

(US Secretary of State Cordell Hull was among those who initially favoured the summary execution of Japan’s wartime prime minister, Tojo Hideki ... the fact that Emperor Hirohito, in whose ...

Would Stalin? Would Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo? Would the United States have stopped if the war continued to drag on, but we were alone in our atomic dominance? Of course not. The only ...

Japanese Emperor Hirohito understood himself to be ... Japan’s Prime Minister Hideki Tojo appeared on the cover of TIME (11/3/1941). Tojo told Hirohito near that time, “Your Majesty ...

In fact, to this day, Tojo is not a household name in the way ... so was the decision not to prosecute Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Bass provides fascinating evidence confirming Hirohito’s ...