This man was Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. He served as the leader of Japan from 1941 to 1944. He was the most significant advocate for a preemptive strike against the United States at Pearl Harbor.

On September 11, 1945, Army Officer Jack Wilpers and others barged into the home of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to arrest him. They found him bleeding from a gunshot wound in an ...

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. Entertainment News // 2 years ago.

Gen. Tojo, prime minister from 1941-44, unleashed a savage war of aggression on Japan’s neighbors and has been widely remembered as Asia’s answer to Adolf Hitler.

Former Japanese Prime Minister and military leader Hideki Tojo, center, stands during the sentencing phase of the war crimes trial in Tokyo, on Nov. 12, 1948. AP ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered the prime minister, Hideki Tojo, to be arrested 9 days after Japan's surrender, The New York Times said. Tojo attempted to commit suicide the day Wilpers' Army ...

It took the belated awarding of a Bronze Star to the Upstate New York native to finally loosen the lips of the man credited with preventing former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo from ...

For more than 70 years, the location of the remains of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese prime minister who led his country’s war effort during World War II, was an enduring mystery.

The granddaughter of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who was executed for crimes against humanity, said she would run for a parliamentary seat in July to "restore the honor" of those who gave ...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi started the New Year by visiting a shrine honoring Japan's war dead, a decision that is certain to rile countries in Asia that Japan invaded and brutally ...