Prime Minister of Japan during World War II, he was hanged for war crimes in 1948
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Tojo Hideki | prime minister of Japan | Britannica.com  Tj Hideki. Tj Hideki, (born December 30, 1884, Tokyo, Japandied December 23, 1948, Tokyo) soldier and statesman who was prime minister of Japan (194144) during most of the Pacific theatre portion of World War II and who was subsequently tried and executed for war crimes.
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Japanese war criminals hanged in Tokyo - Dec 23, 1948 - HISTORY ...  In Tokyo, Japan, Hideki Tojo, former Japanese premier and chief of the ... along with six other top Japanese leaders for their war crimes during World War II. ... He later documented the event in a painting titled Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
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Hideki Tojo facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Hideki Tojo (1884-1948), a Japanese general and premier during World War II, was hanged as a war criminal. He symbolized, in his rise to leadership of the...
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Tj Hideki - World War II - HISTORY.com  Hideki Tojo In Court ... Wartime leader of Japan's government, General Tj Hideki (1884-1948), with his close-cropped hair, mustache, ... arrest by occupation authorities, but he was tried and hanged as a war criminal on December 23, 1948.
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Hideki Tojo - Wikipedia  info); December 30, 1884  December 23, 1948) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to July 22, 1944.
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Nuremberg Trials - World War II - HISTORY.com  Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg ... The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military ... Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) committed suicide and was never brought to trial. ... The death sentences imposed in October 1946 were carried out by Master...
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Takeshita Noboru | prime minister of Japan | Britannica.com  Prime minister of Japan from November 1987 to June 1989, at which time he resigned because of his involvement in an influence-peddling scandal. ... As a result, the country experienced a decade-long bubble economy, which was marked by ... But peace was difficult to preserve on both the domestic and foreign fronts.
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Yukio Mishima: Autobiography as Political Fiction - Virginia Review ...  When he died at the age of 45 in Tokyo in 1970, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was recognized ... Mishima's dramatic suicide insured him permanent notoriety. ... on the 1985 movie Mishima, presents the following portrait of the Japanese novelist: ... of why Mishima committed suicide at the very height of his literary career.
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Keizo Obuchi Prime Minister of Japan  This site introduces Keizo Obuchi, who took office on July 30, 1998, as Japan's eighty-fourth prime minister. The various pages present a chronology of his life,...
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Obuchi Keizo | prime minister of Japan | Britannica.com  Japanese politician who was prime minister from July 1998 to April 2000 and is credited with reversing Japan's economic downturn. Obuchi received a degree...
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war crimes facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  It was adopted in 1946 by the General Assembly of the United Nations in a ... He was not charged with a "war crime" as such or tried by a special international tribunal. ..... orders, but the court rejected the claim, and he was hanged for his crimes. ... After the major trials in Nuremberg, American military tribunals held 809 trials...
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Japan Aide Quits Over Remark on WWII - latimes  May 14, 1988 ... He was a prefectural director of the Kempeitai, or secret military police, during the war. ... of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the two countries. ... It was the second time in less than two years that a Cabinet minister ... In September, 1986, Masayuki Fujio was dismissed as minister of education by...
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Yasukuni Shrine: the 14 'Class A' war criminals honoured by Japan ...  Aug 15, 2014 ... A 1946 picture of accused Japanese war criminals stand in the prisoners' box before ... for the unannounced attack on the US fleet at Pearl Harbour. ... the war crimes trial in Tokyo, he was also executed on December 23, 1948. .... Fiercely opposed to Japan's surrender, he had to be ordered by the Emperor...
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Making a Hashimoto of it again? | The Economist  Apr 20, 2001 ... When Yoshiro Mori, Japan's prime minister, last month announced his intention to ... the job of leading the Liberal Democratic Party, and hence of being prime ... polls, then it might have to find another leader after just a few months. ... In 1998, he led the LDP to a humiliating defeat in upper-house elections.
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BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Mori: Gaffe-prone leader  Feb 14, 2001 ... In his 11 months in power, Yoshiro Mori has gone from relative obscurity to being one of Japan's most unpopular prime ministers in history.
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Tomiichi Murayama - Wikipedia  Tomiichi Murayama is a retired Japanese politician who served as the 81st Prime Minister of Japan from 30 June 1994 to 11 January 1996. He was the head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan (until 1996, the Japanese Socialist Party) and the first socialist prime minister ... In August 1993 after the general election, the Japan Socialist Party joined...
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Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia  First World War. ... Second World War. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (Italian pronunciation: [benito mussolini]; 29 July 1883  28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943.
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Japanese Apology for War Is Welcomed and Criticized - NYTimes.com  Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama was praised and pilloried today by people at ... and abroad for offering Japan's first frank apology for the damage and suffering inflicted by his country during World War II. ... Even many Japanese said they felt a strong expression of regret was long overdue. ... Published: August 16, 1995.
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World War II: After the War - The Atlantic  Oct 30, 2011 ... At the end of World War II, huge swaths of Europe and Asia had been reduced to ruins. ... War crimes trials took place in Europe and Asia, leading to many ... Crimes Trials in 1946 during the Trial of the Major War Criminals, prosecuting 24 ... after the German capitulation in Lorient, France, in July of 1945.
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Yoshir Mori - Wikipedia  Yoshir Mori is a Japanese politician who served as the 85th and 86th Prime Minister of Japan .... Political Business in East Asia. Taylor & Francis Group. p. 336.
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portrait-of-hideki-tojo-in-court-2 - World War II Political Leaders ...  Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was prime minister of Japan from 1941-1944. He was a leading advocate of Japan's Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. After the...