The ashes of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Class-A war criminals executed in Tokyo on the same day in 1948 were scattered over the Pacific Ocean, according to declassified U.S ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, construction began on the first permanent European settlement in New England. It was one week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in ...

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. The Pacific War is underway. In Tokyo, Prime Minister Tojo moves to take every significant government job for himself. Japanese troops sweep through the Malay Peninsula.

ex-Prime Minister Tojo and ex-Foreign Minister Shigemitsu). The charges: “Crimes against peace, murder, conventional war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The prosecution had taken eight ...

The war criminals included wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Visits by Japanese leaders to the controversial shrine trigger a backlash from China and South Korea. Former Prime Minister Fumio ...