By the summer of 1944, the allies were making substantial military and naval progress and victories against Imperial Japan. Under pressure from many factions, Prime Minister Tojo resigned his position ...

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 at this table.

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.

Each morning at sunrise Japan's most important sitting-down soldier, Premier General Hideki Tojo, rides Tokyo's streets for half an hour. Policeman Ono was overcome with trepidation one ...

Last October when the army made him Premier, garrulous General Hideki Tojo said: “I am awed with trepidation at my limited ability.” It was a mild speech for The Razor, whose voice had long ...

Hideki Tojo rose to fame as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II. Born on December 30, 1884, Tojo began his military career as a member of the Imperial Japanese Army and quickly became an ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death by hanging. On Nov. 12, 1948, ...

Gen. Hideki Tojo in custody in 1947. One of the strangest places we’ve ever heard of Morse code appearing is the infamous case of Tojo’s teeth. If you don’t remember, ...

Tojo was the Jap, the man who stabbed us in the back at Pearl Harbor. If America’s vision of Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was somewhat less complex than the real man, his ruthlessness more than ...

TOKYO — A major Japanese movie studio has rehabilitated Japan’s World War II prime minister, Gen. Hideki Tojo, in a film that shows the convicted war criminal as a misunderstood hero who was ...

Ever since his execution in 1948, some historians of World War II have wondered how the remains of wartime Japanese Prime Minister and convicted Class A war criminal Hideki Tojo were disposed of.