Tojo, Hideki
Tojo, Hideki (1884–1948), Japanese general of the army and prime minister.Tojo, a graduate of the Japanese Military Staff College, was promoted to lieutenant general in 1936. By that time, he had become both pro‐German and an ardent advocate of Japanese military expansionism in China. In 1937, Tojo became chief of staff of the Kwantung Army in China, and in October 1941, he forced out and succeeded Prince Fumimaro Konoye as Japanese prime minister. Tojo took his country into World War II with the United States with the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and he remained prime minister until July 1944, after the fall of Saipan. In 1945, he attempted suicide, but was brought before the International Military Tribunal, Far East, for war crimes and hanged in 1948.
Historians depict Tojo as a militant and expansionist nationalist who...
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