It was likely that history, at least as taught in Japan, would remember chief defendant Hideki Tojo longer than chief prosecution witness Tanaka—and longer than anything else about the trial ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...