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 ...

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 ...

It was likely that history, at least as taught in Japan, would remember chief defendant Hideki Tojo longer than chief prosecution witness Tanaka—and longer than anything else about the trial ...

The ashes of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Class-A war criminals ... at Tokyo's Nihon University and specialist on Japanese war criminals, at the U.S. National Archives ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two ... among them the wartime prime minister, Hideki Tojo. Tojo and the others were secretly elevated to the status of gods at the ...

Hideki Tojo was the Japanese prime minister when the country declared war against the US and Britain. Makino argues that this is what Japan chose. The country's position of dominance in Asia was ...

1942 to look at the front of “Tojo’s Cigar,” a mini-Japanese submarine captured during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The writing mocks Japan’s Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The sub later ...

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.