This man was Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. He served as the leader of Japan from 1941 to 1944. He was the most significant advocate for a preemptive strike against the United States at Pearl Harbor.

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 ...

By September 1945, World War II had come to an end. After Japan's unconditional surrender, Gen. Douglas MacArthur issued orders for the arrest of the first forty alleged war criminals, including Prime ...

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 ...

Hideki Tojo, prime minister during much of World War II, is a complicated figure, revered by some conservatives as a patriot but loathed by many in the West for prolonging the war, which ended ...

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. Entertainment News // 2 years ago.

TOKYO — Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s remains was one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese ...

It took the belated awarding of a Bronze Star to the Upstate New York native to finally loosen the lips of the man credited with preventing former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo from ...

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.

Gen. Tojo, prime minister from 1941-44, unleashed a savage war of aggression on Japan’s neighbors and has been widely remembered as Asia’s answer to Adolf Hitler.