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.

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.

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 ...

In this undated photo, former Japan’s Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo is shown with medals outside of the Diet. AP. The discovery brings partial closure to a painful chapter of Japanese ...

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.

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 ...

TOKYO — Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s remains was one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese ...

Hideki Tojo, prime minister during much of World War II, is a complicated figure, revered by some conservatives as a patriot but loathed by many in the West for prolonging the war, which ended ...

On This Day: Japan's ex-PM Hideki Tojo executed 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 ...

TOKYO (AP) -- The granddaughter of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who was executed for crimes against humanity, said Tuesday she would run for a parliamentary seat in July to "restore the ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS. In this undated photo, former Japan’s Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo was shown with medals outside of the Diet. The declassified U.S. military documents show the ashes of ...