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Hideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on December 30, 1884, [2] as the third son of Hidenori Tojo, a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. [3] Under the bakufu , Japanese society was divided rigidly into four castes; the merchants, artisans, peasants, and the samurai .
Hirohito as an infant in 1902 Emperor Taishō's four sons in 1921: Hirohito, Takahito, Nobuhito, and Yasuhito. Hirohito was born on 29 April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, [2] the first son of 21-year-old Crown Prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako, the future Empress Teimei. [3]
Ōkawa (seated in middle) in court. He had just slapped Tojo's (seated in front) head and is being restrained by a guard (standing behind). In the Tokyo tribunal after the end of World War II, Ōkawa was prosecuted as a class-A war criminal based on his role as an ideologue.
Pride (プライド 運命の瞬間;, Puraido: Unmei no Shunkan), also known as Pride: The Fateful Moment, is a 1998 Japanese historical drama directed by Shunya Itō.The film, based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo (played by Masahiko Tsugawa) as a family man who fought to defend Japan and Asia from Western ...
As the war progressed, Tsunoda sought for the resignation of Prime Minister Tojo. He plotted to assassinate Tojo, but Tojo resigned before the assassination could be executed. [1] Tsunoda was arrested for his role in the plot. He admitted that he planned to kill Tojo, and launch a new cabinet under Prince Higashikuni. [2]
Yuko Tojo (東條 由布子, Tōjō Yūko, May 20, 1939 – February 13, 2013) was a Japanese ultra-nationalist politician, Imperial Japanese apologist, and brief political hopeful. [1] She was the granddaughter of General Hideki Tojo , the Japanese wartime prime minister who was convicted as a Class A war criminal and hanged after World War II ...
Naoki Hoshino (星野 直樹, Hoshino Naoki, 10 April 1892 – 26 January 1978) was a bureaucrat and politician who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Prime Minister Hideki Tojo from 1941 to 1944.
Admiral Yamamoto, a few hours before his death, saluting Japanese naval pilots at Rabaul, April 18, 1943 Prime Minister Hideki Tojo bowing to a portrait of Yamamoto, following the return of his ashes to Japan, May 1943 Yamamoto's state funeral, 5 June 1943 Yamamoto's ashes are carried from the battleship Musashi at Kisarazu, Japan on May 23, 1943.