USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hideki Tojo ( , Tōjō Hideki (help. info), December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a Japanese politician, general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for most of World War II.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hirohito (1901-1989), known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa, was emperor of Japan during World War II and is Japan’s longest-serving monarch in history. Hirohito was born in Tokyo during the Meiji Period to the son of the reigning emperor. His father ascended the throne in 1912.

Detailed explanation-3: -Imperial Supreme War Command (1937-1945) Emperor Hirohito: Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy (Article XI of the Meiji Constitution of 1889).

Detailed explanation-4: -Hideki Tojo led Japanese forces in Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s. Tojo became Kwantung Army chief of staff in 1937.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hideki Tojo was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army who served as Japan’s prime minister from 1941 to 1944. He vocally supported Japanese expansion and a pre-emptive attack on the US and European colonial powers.