After Japan took all of Indochina in late July and was subjected to an American oil embargo, Emperor Hirohito asked Prime Minister Hideki Tojo—a general committed to imperial expansion—to make ...

The walls close in on Hideki Tojo. The General turned Prime Minister takes hands-on control of the military, with catastrophic consequences. Emperor Hirohito pulls the plug. With Tojo forced out ...

Emperor Hirohito and Army Commanding Gen. Hideki Tojo had promised the Japanese people an assault on mainland Japan was impossible. Tojo was also Prime ... leader Hideki Tojo answers ...

Japan's Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than 60 years, and his tenure included World War II. Although he was never prosecuted for war crimes, many historians say he should have been.

After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa) announced Japanese surrender to the Allies to end World War II on August 15, 1945, many around the globe fervently hoped he would soon be tried as a Class A ...

He called on the Emperor Hirohito, bowed reverentially, and reported, according to Radio Tokyo, on a “general jurisdictional matter.” The Premier and his ministers now held only shadow authority.

Would Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo? Would the United States have stopped if the war continued to drag on, but we were alone in our atomic dominance? Of course not.