Hideki Tojo
The war of anti-aggression has been victorious for many years, and people's lives have gradually become calm and beautiful. The wave of once brutal fanaticism seems to have passed, but those who were engulfed are worth remembering forever.
And those who stir up the tide, no matter how many years have passed, should not be forgiven or glorified.
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In 1884, Hideki Tojo was born into a typical Japanese militarist family. His father, Hideyoshi Tojo, graduated from the Japanese Army University and participated in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War.
Because the first two brothers died prematurely, Hideki Tojo became the eldest son of the family, and Tojo Hideki decided to train him into a Japanese soldier like himself, and let him accept military management from an early age.
As a teenager, Hideki Tojo also learned the "Shinkaku Flow Sword Dance" from others at the strict request of his father, so as to exercise his Bushido spirit.
Growing up in such a family, Hideki Tojo naturally had the idea of becoming an officer, making a career, and being loyal to the emperor.
At the age of fifteen, Hideki Tojo entered the military academy as he wished, and conducted formal military studies. Three years later, he was transferred from the Tokyo Local Army Kindergarten School to the Army Central Kindergarten School.
Earlier, during the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China, Japan received huge compensation and military qualifications from the "Xinugu Treaty" signed by the Qing government, which greatly increased its arrogance, and the whole country fell into the frenzy of foreign aggression.
Internally, Japan implemented the "wartime education policy," shortened the school system, stepped up the training of students, vigorously propagated militarist ideas, and expanded the army. Externally, Japan has been preparing for a war of aggression and wanting to go to war with Tsarist Russia.
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War broke out. Hideki Tojo watched the war, and his father, Tojo Hideki, also joined the ranks of the army, ecstatic, and after being promoted to the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, he always fantasized that he was invincible as a member of the army.
Under Japan's military education, there are many people in the school who think the same way.
The Ichigu platform behind the non-commissioned officer school is a good place for them to "perform". There, they talked as if they were all on the battlefield, raising their weapons in their hands and waving them at the heads of others.
Hideki Tojo was particularly excited, he had shown more fanaticism than others since he was a child, and now the situation of national preparation for war was exactly what he wanted, and he was almost excited.
Hideki Tojo also repeatedly jumped out to show his classmates his "Divine Sword Flow Sword Dance", and looked forward to seeing the real chapter on the battlefield.
To Toshijo's disappointment, in 1915, Hideki Tojo graduated from the Japanese Army University and failed to participate in the Russo-Japanese War.
After graduation, Hideki Tojo entered the Ministry of The Army for an internship, and soon after was released as a military attaché at the Japanese Embassy in Germany, and later had several twists and turns in the army, unlike what he envisioned, he had always been regarded as an "incompetent man" and had no chance to go to the battlefield.
In 1935, JunOmiya, who had met his fanatical classmate and then chief of the Army's personnel bureau, gave him a chance. Jungami Recommends Him to Be the Commander of the Gendarmerie of the Kwantung Army, an old classmate, and from then on, he completely unleashes the evil beast in Hideki Tojo's heart.
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On the battlefield, Hideki Tojo's cruel tactics were very satisfactory to the Japanese top brass. When he attacked the town of Nankou, thousands of soldiers and civilians in our country were killed at the hands of his subordinates.
He also participated in the fallacy of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", which actually incited war fanaticism and sent troops to Southeast Asia to carry out endless aggression.
In 1941, Fumimaro Konoe announced the resignation of the Cabinet Chief. Hideki Tojo, who had always been fanatical, was considered to have a strong spirit of dedication to Japanese militarism, and successfully ascended to the throne, holding the posts of prime minister, land minister, and interior minister, and seizing power in a big way.
In order to better control the thinking of the Japanese military and civilians and fill the wear and tear of Japan's internal affairs, Hideki Tojo acted arbitrarily and repeatedly issued terrible government orders, and even rummaged through the garbage bins of his subordinates to check whether they were strict with themselves.
At the same time, there were constant wars against the outside world, including the Pearl Harbor attack.
But on the battlefield, Hideki Tojo did not have this kind of prestige. He made several desperate bets on key battles, but repeatedly lost, causing him to lose Hirohito's trust.
In April 1944, under the blockade of the U.S. Navy, Hideki Tojo was determined to fight and implement the "Operation No. 1" plan, ordering the Japanese army to open the Railway Lines of Pinghan, Guangdong-Han, and Guixiang in China to obtain favorable conditions. An attempt was made to get rid of the blockade of the U.S. Navy and resupply the Japanese troops trapped in the South China Sea.
The Battle of Yuxianggui began, which lasted eight months, the 500,000-strong Kuomintang army was defeated, and more than 140 cities in southern China fell one after another.
Only in July, this continental line of communication failed to turn the tide for Japan, and American bombers even flew to Japanese soil, and the First Battle Plan failed. On July 18, Hideki Tojo, who had lost Hirohito's trust, resigned.
In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally, and the anti-fascist war was completely won. The notorious Hideki Tojo was naturally not spared, becoming a Class A war criminal in World War II and included in the United States, Britain and other countries on the wanted list.
Unwilling to be tried, Hideki Tojo had his personal doctor draw a circle the size of a wine glass in the heart with a charcoal pen, and when the American gendarmes who arrested him entered the residence, he took the Walter automatic pistol that Hitler had given him and shot at the location marked by the private doctor.
Hearing the gunshots, the gendarmerie stormed his residence and took him to the hospital, bleeding profusely.
Although Hideki Tojo had a suicidal heart, due to heart deformities, the bullets deviated and he did not die. After being rescued by a blood transfusion, Hideki Tojo was imprisoned in Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
After the suicide attempt, Hideki Tojo was more timid than other war criminals, but also more paranoid. In January 1946, the Far Eastern Military Tribunal, which was jointly formed by the United States, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, was held.
Hideki Tojo, who authorized a large number of Japanese crimes of aggression and caused countless casualties, showed stubborn defense of fascism and refused to admit guilt.
For more than two years of trial, Hideki Tojo did not communicate with other war criminals, but immersed himself in writing meaningless defenses and false confessions.
But all the struggle was in vain, and Ofjo accounted for as many as 54 of the 55 crimes in court, which was a heinous crime.
On November 12, 1948, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East held his final trial: Hideki Tojo, sentencing him to death. On December 23, 1948, 64-year-old Hideki Tojo was hanged, and his ashes were thrown into the sea after cremating his body.
But part of his ashes was secretly brought back, and a "Monument to the Seven Soldiers" was erected ten years later, and the spiritual seat is still enshrined at the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan.
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At the last moment before the execution, he still refused to confess guilt. In fact, his pre-Dharma life was not difficult, because the written confessions were always in the single room, meals were served on time, and he was visited by his children from time to time.
He refused to repent of his mistakes, and hoped that his children would not participate in politics, leaving them with the legacy of "not saying anything", telling them never to speak about politics and what they did.
Hideki Tojo's wife is named Katsuko Ito, and her mother's family was originally a distant relative of the Tojo family, she and Hideki Tojo played together since childhood, and when they grew up, they naturally married each other.
The two have had seven children. The three sons were Hidetaka Tojo, Keio Tojo, and Toshio Toshio.
Hideki Tojo with his wife and children
After marriage, according to Japanese custom, Katsuko changed her surname to Tojo. Unlike her husband's fanaticism, Tojo Katsuko was not influenced by Japanese militarism and was unwilling to obey her husband and teach her children with his values.
Instead, she didn't like children to ask Hideki Tojo about things and teach them to stay away from politics. However, her personal influence was still limited in the environment at that time.
Katsuko has always been low-key, and after the execution of her husband who left behind the "everything without saying anything", she refused to accept any interviews, never confided in a few words about her husband's past behavior, and even rarely appeared in public.
As a result, she was able to live a peaceful life and died at the age of ninety-four.
The mother's behavior affected the eldest son, Hidetaka Tojo. He was a typical pacifist, opposed to war and disgusted by Japan's fanatical militarist atmosphere.
When his father was alive, he often quarreled with his father over issues of principle, and the relationship between the two people was not close, and there was little contact.
When he grew up, Hidetaka Tojo left home to become a factory worker, because he was weak-sighted and had no intention of participating in the war of aggression, so he never entered the army. In the later period, Japan was in a desperate shortage of troops, and Hidetaka Tojo was conscripted into the navy.
After hearing about this, Hideki Tojo was very excited, and he thought it was a good opportunity to change his son.
However, Tojo Hidetaka did not change his opinion, but he was even more angry, believing that his father was obstructing him when he joined the army, and his relationship with his father deteriorated rapidly, and he completely entered a stalemate.
Fortunately, Hidetaka Tojo did not personally participate in the war of aggression, but remained at the naval base, and after the war ended, he retired from the army and became an ordinary person, continued to work and married, and lived an ordinary life.
When the news of his father's trial came, several children went to visit him, but Hidetaka Tojo was still reluctant to meet his father, but was ashamed of him.
Hideki Tojo once wanted to see his son, who had been separated for many years, so he handed over the letter, but Hidetaka Tojo showed great disgust for his bad behavior and completely ignored it.
It is also because of Tojo Hidetaka's same low profile as his mother, tojo Hideki's life deeds, he has not understood it in depth, let alone told the outside world.
Therefore, this son, who had the worst relationship with Hideki Tojo, to a certain extent, has always adhered to the legacy of Hideki Tojo and has not revealed information about him.
Tojo Hideki's second son, Tojo Keio, was not a man of peace. In the family background and the domestic atmosphere at that time, Tojo Keio also hoped to become an officer to serve the Japanese emperor.
However, Hideo Tojo was on the battlefield and acted arbitrarily, but did not want his son to join the war and lose his life, so at his behest, Tojo Keio graduated from Tokyo Imperial University and entered the weapons design department.
The weapons design sector can also be effective, relatively safer and more valued.
Tojo worked at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and participated in the design of the Zero fighter, and his treatment was constantly improved. After his father's execution, he was not greatly affected, but still worked in management.
In 1981, Keio Tojo became ceo of Mitsubishi Motors, one of Japan's top entrepreneurs. And in the depths of his heart, the flame of militarism is still not extinguished, and he has been secretly carrying out some actions in support of militarism.
In 1986, yasuhiro Nakasone, then prime minister, proposed that Class A war criminals from World War II should not be enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine, but that their spiritual positions should be removed.
As soon as this statement came out, Japanese militarists spoke out against it and described these war criminals as heroes who should not be humiliated.
This time, Keio Tojo stood up to defend their "glory of the Tojo family."
The result of this protest is also obvious, Nakasone Yasuhiro did not succeed, and the Yasukuni Shrine still retains the spiritual position of these war criminals.
After his retirement, Tojo Keio, like his mother, lived a quiet old age and died of illness in 2012.
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Similar to his life trajectory, there is also Tojo Hideki's third son, Toshio Toshio, who is also extremely enthusiastic about war. It was just that he did not have much success compared to his brother, and he was very young and had no chance to join the army in the war.
When he grew up, because his father was in trial, he was not assigned to a suitable job.
Later, Japan established the Self-Defense Forces, and he joined them. It is worth being wary that because of his father's relationship, even though Toshio Toshio has always behaved mediocrely, he has still risen steadily and won a higher position in the Self-Defense Forces. After retirement, I also lived a peaceful life.
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Of the three sons, Hidetaka Tojo has been unequivocally opposed to his father's actions. But what annoyed Hidetaka Tojo was his daughter, Tojo Yubuko. Yubuko idolized Hideki Tojo from an early age, and after graduating from university, she also founded an environmental protection agency with the support of Japanese militarism.
Tojo yufuko
Environmental agencies are actually selling dog meat on sheep's heads, secretly making a living to justify the crimes of World War II and trying to overturn the case for them, especially by Cloth's own grandfather.
The shrine also enshrines hideki Tojo, who often visits in public and defends Japan's war of aggression in public.
She didn't listen to a word about her grandfather's last words. Yubuko's husband was Iwanami Hiromiyasu, and after getting married, Yubuko changed her surname to Iwawami.
However, because she repeatedly expressed her views on the war of aggression in public in the name of Iwawami Yubuko, denied the crimes committed by Japan, and denied the objective facts of the massacre and comfort women, which were full of evidence, she caused a lot of dissatisfaction.
Yubuzi also published a book, "The Truth of the Great East Asian War," which can be described as referring to deer as horses and making things up in a haphazard manner, not only negating Japan's bad deeds in launching the Pacific War, but also viewing Japan as the biggest victim of the war.
Such content, of course, is not tolerated by the values of the current world.
Her husband couldn't bear it anymore and asked her not to speak in her own name, so she changed her surname back to Tojo from Fushiko. In contrast to Hidetaka Tojo, Yukiko is not averse to her surname.
Perhaps she is still a little proud in her heart, because she has always regarded her grandfather who participated in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War as a proud, and she also thinks that her grandfather is a man who once brought victory to Japan.
It's just that times have changed, and militarism is resented by most Japanese in modern times. The remarks made by Yubuzi, who have been fully brainwashed, although supported by the remaining militarists, are not supported by many compatriots.
Yubuko once announced her candidacy for parliament, but also has few supporters. In this regard, Yubuzi, who still had not woken up, also realized that he could not set off a storm and withdrew from the literary world. In 2013, Yubu died of lung disease.
The war criminals who committed numerous crimes are still enshrined today, and his descendants are relatively unaffected and even still under his shadow.
Whoever enters the Shrine to worship is to add fuel to the remaining fire of militarism in Japan. Although history has passed, there are always some things that cannot be forgotten or revealed.