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.

Former Japanese Prime Minister and military leader Hideki Tojo, center, stands during the sentencing phase of the war crimes trial in Tokyo, on Nov. 12, 1948. AP ...

Among the defendants was a gangly, bespectacled, 59-year-old civilian named Shumei Okawa, who happened to be seated directly behind the former prime minister, army Gen. Hideki Tojo.

The man who had tried to commit suicide to escape trial (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945) did not now try to save his neck. His sovereign, Emperor Hirohito, was not to blame for anything, said Tojo.

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.

Hideki Tojo and the six others who were hanged were among 28 Japanese leaders tried for war crimes at the 1946-1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Twenty-five were convicted, ...

On September 11, 1945, Army Officer Jack Wilpers and others barged into the home of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to arrest him. They found him bleeding from a gunshot wound in an ...

When soldiers surrounded Tojo's house on Sept. 11, the 61-year-old was planning his suicide. He shot himself in the chest with a 32 caliber pistol. He was still alive when the Americans found him.

ALBANY, N.Y. – John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93. His ...