Under pressure from many factions, Prime Minister Tojo resigned his position in the summer of 1944. Following the defeat and surrender of Imperial Japan in August 1945, Hideki Tojo was charged and ...

On August 15th Emperor Hirohito at last admitted defeat. Meanwhile ... 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 ...

Major General Hideki Tojo takes command of the secret police - the Kempeitai. The Imperial Japanese Army invades China and terrorises the civilian population. Kempeitai operatives set up a secret ...

Show more General Hideki Tojo led Japan into World War Two and oversaw some of the most horrific war crimes in recorded history. Tojo did not hold absolute power, but he more than earns his place ...

But delay is defeat if further rapid growth seems impossible ... but it still had a temporary advantage. Prime Minister Hideki Tojo concluded they had no choice but to "close one's eyes and ...

Through Blewett’s voice, Hideki Tojo spoke for all the defendants ... not uttering a single word. . . . The responsibility of defeat devolves on myself as Premier.” “Now I Don’t Know.” ...

Only Joseph Stalin fully knew how close Russia stood to defeat in 1942 ... glasses and the ack-ack of his cigar smoke, Premier Hideki Tojo emerged as a character worthy of his nickname: The ...

File Photo courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library In 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of the Allied War Crimes Commission.

In 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of the Allied War Crimes Commission. In 1972, a series of earthquakes killed about ...

triggering America’s entry into the First World War and the defeat of his Army on the Western Front. Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo similarly assumed that the American political debates about ...

Hideki Tojo, signer of Faivre’s Yen bill and one ... On Faivre’s prison beat, among the most reviled of the scores of prisoners, was Dr. Shichiro Matake, tagged with the vilest accusation ...