Hideki Tojo was undoubtedly the most vicious war criminal of World War II, and whether it was the brutality of wartime or the cowardice of being tried, anyone who knew the truth of history would spurn him, even the Japanese themselves. However, there is a person who has given up his conscience as a human being to defend Hideki Tojo, and even sang praises, and this person is the granddaughter of Hideki Tojo, Yubuko Tojo.
Before his death, Hideki Tojo advised his family and descendants not to discuss anything about him again so as not to be implicated. Therefore, his son Hidetaka Tojo was very low-key throughout his life, never caring about political current affairs. When Japan offered to move Hideki Tojo's ashes to the Yasukuni Shrine, it was also rejected by Hidetaka Tojo.
But this principle was broken by his daughter. When Hideki Tojo was hanged, Tojo Yufuko was just 9 years old, because she was already deeply affected by the atmosphere of militarism and did not have enough ability to see the truth of history, so she always regarded Hideki Tojo as her own example, and when she was a child, she often fought with her classmates to defend her grandfather.
As an adult, Tojo became a politician, praising his grandfather in public many times, saying that Hideki Tojo was a war hero of Japan, leading Japan to revival, and writing books for him. Even more heinous is that in order to defend his grandfather, Tojo Yufuko did not hesitate to reverse black and white, claiming that the Nanjing Massacre was self-directed by Chinese, just to slander the Japanese.
Tojo Yufuko stubbornly for a lifetime, in her later years she still insisted that Hideki Tojo was an outstanding man who fought for the country and brought peace to the region, and the negative evaluation of Hideki Tojo in these 60 years was because the Japanese were brainwashed, and only if the Japanese took Hideki Tojo as an example, the Japanese could be reborn.
Japanese people are not all fools, and most people scoff at Tojo Yufuko's words, just as a joke. Tojo Yubuko's husband distanced herself from her as a result and forbade her to continue using her husband's surname, Iwawawa.
Japan is a patriarchal society, and being stripped of her husband's family name is a great insult to a woman, but Tojo Yubuko is not ashamed, but proud, and since she left her husband's family, her behavior of defending Hideki Tojo has become even more unscrupulous.
In 2013, 74-year-old Yubu tojo died of pneumonia, completing his chaotic and ridiculous life. All her life, she has been repeating a wrong thing, that is, to whitewash her grandfather, and finally end up with a lonely end and curses from all over the world, which is also to blame.