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: -Tōjō was the prime minister of Japan during most of the Pacific War. He was one of the architects of Japan’s expansionist policies in Asia and directed Japan’s military efforts during its earliest and most successful campaigns.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nakae Tōju, original personal name Gen, pseudonym Mokken, (born April 21, 1608, Ōmi province [modern Shiga prefecture], Japan-died Oct. 11, 1648, Ōmi province), neo-Confucian scholar who established in Japan the idealist thought of the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hirohito, original name Michinomiya Hirohito, posthumous name Shōwa, (born April 29, 1901, Tokyo, Japan-died January 7, 1989, Tokyo), emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was the longest-reigning monarch in Japan’s history.

Detailed explanation-5: -Regarded as a personification of ruthless Japanese militarism, he was held responsible for the murder of millions of civilians in China and the Far East and of thousands of Allied prisoners of war. When his arrest was ordered in September, Tojo tried to commit suicide.