Hideki Tojo was a general in the Imperial Japanese ... Tojo lost the support of Japan's Emperor Hirohito in 1944 as the war turned against Japan and he was forced to resign. After the country's ...

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In 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death by hanging. Tojo survived a suicide attempt three years earlier ...

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 ...

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.

Bald, knotty Premier General Hideki Tojo rose before a mass meeting in Tokyo’s miniature Hibiya Park and warned the Japanese against “intoxication by initial victories.” Shortly afterward he ...