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 doctor, Shichiro Matake, was held at Tokyo's Sugamo Prison, where wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was hanged. Matake was accused of carrying out gruesome experiments on captured ...

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 ...

But that never happened. Instead, General Hideki Tojo and 27 Imperial military officers and Japanese officials were charged, ...

The chief characters of the climactic scenes were Hideki (“The Razor”) Tojo and Ryukichi (“The Monster”) Tanaka. Neither expected to live long. War Criminal Tojo expected to be hanged by ...

“Your job after Pearl Harbor was not to cover Tojo and Franklin Roosevelt equally,” he continued, referring to Hideki Tojo, ...

File Photo courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library In 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of the Allied War Crimes Commission.