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- Early Life and Education
- Military Career
- Rise to Prime Minister
- World War II
- Arrest, Trial, and Execution
- Legacy
- In Popular Culture
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Hideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on December 30, 1884, as the third son of Hidenori Tojo, a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. Under the bakufu, Japanese society was divided rigidly into four castes; the merchants, artisans, peasants, and the samurai. After the Meiji Restoration, the caste system was abolished ...
Early service as officer
Upon graduating from the Japanese Military Academy (ranked 10th of 363 cadets) in March 1902, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry of the IJA. In 1918–19, he briefly served in Siberia as part of the Japanese expeditionary force sent to intervene in the Russian Civil War. He served as Japanese military attache to Germany between 1919 and 1922. As the Imperial Japanese Army had been trained by a German military mission in the 19th century, the Japanese Army was always very...
Promotion to Army high command
In 1934, Hideki was promoted to major general and served as chief of the personnel department within the Army Ministry. Tojo wrote a chapter in the book Hijōji kokumin zenshū (Essays in time of national emergency), a book published in March 1934 by the Army Ministry calling for Japan to become a totalitarian "national defense state". This book of fifteen essays by senior generals argued that Japan had defeated Russia in the war of 1904–05 because bushidō had given the Japanese superior willpo...
Advocacy for preventive war
On June 1, 1940, Emperor Hirohito appointed Kōichi Kido, a leading "reform bureaucrat" as the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, making him into the Emperor's leading political advisor and fixer. Kido had aided in the creation in the 1930s of an alliance between the "reform bureaucrats" and the Army's "Control" faction centered on Tojo and General Mutō Akira. Kido's appointment also favored the rise of his allies in the Control faction. On July 30, 1940, Tojo was appointed army minister in the se...
Appointment as prime minister
At the time, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni was said to be the only person who could control the Army and the Navy and was recommended by Konoe and Tojo as Konoe's replacement. Hirohito rejected this option, arguing that a member of the imperial family should not have to eventually carry the responsibility for a war against the West as a defeat would ruin the prestige of the House of Yamato. Following the advice of Kōichi Kido, he chose instead Tojo, who was known for his devotion to the imperia...
Decision for war
The Emperor summoned Tojo to the Imperial Palace one day before Tojo took office. After being informed of his appointment, Tojo was given one order from the Emperor: to make a policy review of what had been sanctioned by the Imperial Conferences.Despite being vocally on the side of war, Tojo nevertheless accepted the order and pledged to obey. According to Colonel Akiho Ishii, a member of the Army General Staff, the newly appointed prime minister showed a true sense of loyalty to the emperor...
On December 8, 1941 (December 7 in the Americas), Tojo went on Japanese radio to announce that Japan was now at war with the United States, the British Empire, and the Netherlands and read out an imperial rescript that ended with the playing of the popular martial song Umi Yukaba (Across the Sea), which set to music a popular war poem from the clas...
After Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945, U.S. general Douglas MacArthur ordered the arrest of forty individuals suspected of war crimes, including Tojo. Five American GIs were sent to serve the arrest warrant. As American soldiers surrounded Tojo's house on September 11, he shot himself in the chest with a pistol, but missed his heart. As a r...
Tojo's grave is now in the Grave of the Seven Martyrs (殉国七士廟) in Hazu, Aichi, The grave is said to have been created by stealing parts of Tojo's body that supporters were supposed to cremate and scatter in the Pacific Ocean. Seven other Class A war criminals are also buried in the same grave, including Kenji Doihara, Seishirō Itagaki, Heitarō Kimur...
During World War II, the IJAAS fighter plane known as the Nakajima Ki-44 received the Allied reporting nameof "Tojo".In the 1945 film Blood on the Sun, Tojo is portrayed by Robert Armstrong.In the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, directed by Toshio Masuda, Tojo is portrayed by Asao Uchida at various events leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack.In 1970's The Militarists, directed by Hiromichi Horikawa, he is portrayed by Keiju Kobayashias a tyrant, and in an alternate history angle, stays prime minister until the end of the war.Japanese
1. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure(July 7, 1937; Third Class: September 29, 1928; Fourth Class: June 25, 1920; Fifth Class: May 31, 1913; Sixth Class: April 1, 1906) 2. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun(April 29, 1940; Second Class: April 29, 1934; Fourth Class: November 1, 1920) 3. Order of the Golden Kite, 2nd Class (April 29, 1940)
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1. Grand Cordon of the Grand Order of the Orchid Blossom, Manchukuo 2. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Illustrious Dragon, Manchukuo 3. Grand Cordon of the Order of Auspicious Clouds, Manchukuo 4. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Pillars of State, Manchukuo 5. Knight of the Order of the Yellow Dragon, China 6. Grand Cordon of the Order of Chula Chom Klao, Thailand 7. Grand Cordon of the Order of the White Elephant,Thailand 8. Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, Germany 9. Grand Cro...
British Movietone (2015). Tojo's Head (Bald) Slapped in Court. British Movietone.Dower, John (1986). War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 0075416522.Hoyt, Edwin Palmer (1993). Warlord: Tojo Against the World. Scarborough House. pp. 195–201.[ISBN missing]Karnow, Stanley (1989). "Hideki Tojo/Hideko Tojo". In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. Random House. ISBN 978-0394549750.Address by Tojo Hideki, Premier of Japan at the Wayback Machine(archived March 12, 2008)Taekwondo ( / ˌtaɪkwɒnˈdoʊ, ˌtaɪˈkwɒndoʊ, ˌtɛkwənˈdoʊ /; [2] [3] [4] Korean : 태권도; [t̪ʰɛ.k͈wʌ̹n.d̪o] ⓘ ), also spelled tae kwon do or taekwon-do, is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving punching and kicking techniques. The literal translation for taekwondo is "kicking", "punching", and "the art or way of ...
Kaiju No. 8 ( Japanese: 怪獣8号, Hepburn: Kaijū Hachigō), also known in English as Monster #8, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoya Matsumoto [ ja]. It has been serialized on Shueisha 's Shōnen Jump+ app and website since July 2020, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes as of April 2024.
