Tojo stood trial for war crimes, was found guilty by a military tribunal and hanged on Dec. 23, 1948, a week before his 64th birthday. Sep 11, 2010 Glad You Asked ...

Tojo and the six others who were hanged were among 28 Japanese wartime leaders tried for war crimes at the 1946-1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Shortly after Tojo and the other convicted war criminals were hanged in December 1948, the American military began a tense mission to dispose of their ashes.The effort was conducted behind locked ...

Tojo and the six others who were hanged were among 28 Japanese wartime leaders tried for war crimes at the 1946-1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Tojo, executed in 1948 after being convicted of war crimes, by the Allies, was prime minister during much of the war. The notes buttress other evidence that Tojo was fiercely opposed to surrender, ...

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 Commission.

December 23, 1948, 2.10am: After Hideki Tojo is hanged, his body and those of five others is loaded on a truck and taken out of Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.. 3.40am: A motorcade guarded by truckloads ...

The returns of a census taken on Nov. 15, now available in part, show that the entire population of Tokyo has dropped to 1,529,166 from 2,499,000 before the earthquake, a loss of 970,000.

Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, is seen in the Dec. 1947, photo. AP TOKYO — Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime ...

TOKYO – 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 ...

Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan’s fallen soldiers — including her grandfather, Gen. Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II premier who ...

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 Commission.