TOKYO — A major Japanese movie studio has rehabilitated Japan’s World War II prime minister, Gen. Hideki Tojo, in a film that shows the convicted war criminal as a misunderstood hero who was ...

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. Charles Gorry / AP ...

Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being frightened, a newly released ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death by hanging.

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.

The younger Tojo, now a 42-year-old entrepreneur, was a fourth-grader when he saw the film. As a child, people often referred to him as “Hideki Tojo’s great-grandson,” and not by his own name.

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.

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 ...

John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93.