When it comes to Hideki Tojo, many Asians tend to grit their teeth because the disaster caused by this war demon has left countless people unforgettable, and even his children have alienated him. Perhaps feeling that the sins were deep, Hideki Tojo left a testament of "not saying everything" before fufa.
This testament was strictly followed by Hideki Tojo's sons for decades, but was accidentally broken by the third generation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Hideki Tojo's last days were comfortable</h1>
After the U.S. troops entered Japan, Hideki Tojo knew that he would not be able to escape severe punishment, and in order to show his so-called Bushido integrity, he shot himself in the heart before the arrival of the U.S. military police in order to die.
I don't know if it was intentional or coincidental, but the bullet just grazed his heart and was finally rescued by the arriving American gendarmes. After recovering, Hideki Tojo was imprisoned in Tokyo's Duck Nest Prison, where he spent the last days of his life in addition to appearing in court for trial.
In prison, Hideki Tojo felt much more relaxed. Because he no longer worries about the pursuit of the US military police, there is no heavy work, and there is no need to plan for the future of the "Great Japanese Empire". In prison, he enjoyed the single room, and his schedule was very regular.
In terms of diet, he can enjoy delicious meals on time (after World War II, Japan's economy collapsed, society was in chaos, and not many people can eat delicious meals), and he can also read books in his leisure time. All in all, Hideki Tojo in The Duck Nest Prison was in much better mental and physical condition than he was during World War II.
Although Hideki Tojo argued in court, he committed countless crimes and was sentenced to death by hanging by the Far Eastern Military Tribunal. Before the execution, Hideki Tojo left a testament to the children who came to visit him, "don't say anything". He wanted his children not to get involved in politics, let alone what he did in World War II.
On October 23, 1948, the 64-year-old Hideki Tojo was hanged. In order to prevent the militarists from commemorating Hideki Tojo, the U.S. military cremated Hideki Tojo and sprinkled his ashes into the sea.
The execution of militarists on October 23 was a decision made by the U.S. military after full consideration.
Because October 23 is the birthday of Crown Prince Akihito of Japan, the U.S. military chose this day mainly to humiliate Japan, but also to prevent militarists from mourning war criminals such as Hideki Tojo on the anniversary.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > the low-key Katsuko Tojo</h1>
Hideki Tojo married Katsuko Tojo (formerly known as Katsuko Ito) in 1909, and the two had seven children. Among them, there are 3 sons, namely Hidetaka Tojo, Keio Tojo, and Toshio Toshio. Katsuko is a distant relative of the Tojo family, and the two have lived together since childhood. When they grew up, the two naturally married and became husband and wife.
Katsuko is a typical Kenuchisuke who barely asks about politics. Thanks to Katsuko's correct teachings, several of Tojo Hideki's children were able to form correct values when they grew up without being brainwashed by militarism and getting involved in the war, and it was because of Katsuko's existence that the Tojo family would not split.
Having never been interested in politics, Katsuko was not implicated after Tojo's arrest.
After Hideki Tojo, Katsuko was more low-key than before. Katsuko Tojo followed Hideki Tojo's instructions, refused to do any interviews, and never appeared in public. Katsuko lived until the age of 94, which is a good death.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > the peace-loving Hidetaka Tojo</h1>
The eldest son, Hidetaka Tojo, was very disgusted with war, so he was very disgusted by his father's aggressive policy, and the father and son often quarreled over these problems, which led to their relationship not being close.
When he grew up, Hidetaka Tojo left home and became a factory worker. He had little contact with his father after leaving home, and he scoffed at the feverish war atmosphere in Japan at the time.
Due to the tight war, Japan practiced a compulsory military system, and all adult men were required to join the army. Hidetaka Tojo was not in the conscription range due to his natural amblyopia. At the end of the war, Japan's military supply was strained, and Hidetaka Tojo, who was over thirty years old at the time, was drafted into the Japanese Navy.
When Hideki Tojo learned of this, he felt that it was an honor, so he did not intervene in the matter. Hidetaka Tojo was annoyed by this, and at one point thought that it was arranged by his father. Fortunately, Hidetaka Tojo did not enter the war and remained at the naval base until the end of the war.
After the war, Hidetaka Tojo became a worker at a Japanese shipyard and started a family on his own. Hidetaka Tojo was not surprised by the news that his father had been captured by the U.S. military. As the Tokyo trial progressed, Japan's crimes of aggression were constantly exposed, which deepened Tojo Hidetaka's antipathy towards his father.
As the son of a Class A war criminal, Tojo Hidetaka even disgraced himself with the surname Tojo.
In the last days of his life, Hideki Tojo entrusted someone to find Hidetaka Tojo, hoping to meet his son before he died. Tojo Hidetaka only lightly replied: "I have nothing to be nostalgic about him", thus rejecting Hideki Tojo's request to meet.
For the rest of his life, Hidetaka Tojo worked in a shipyard until his retirement. Because of his father, he acted very low-key, willing to be an ordinary person, and his deeds were little known.
It can be said that among the children of Hideki Tojo, Tojo Hidetaka, although the most distant from his father, is the one who most abides by his father's teachings. But to Tojo's surprise, his daughter Yufuko Tojo turned into a notorious militarist.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > Tojo Yubuko, brainwashed by militarism</h1>
Yubuko Tojo was born in 1939, and she was only 9 years old when Hideki Tojo was hanged. Due to the long-term discord between Tojo Hidetaka and his father, there were not many opportunities for Tojo Yubuko and Tojo Hideki to meet.
It is reasonable to say that Tojo Yubuko's feelings for Tojo Hideki are not deep, but Tojo Yubuko has worshipped her grandfather since she was a child, and even crazy obsessed with militaristic ideas, which makes Tojo Hidetaka angry and annoyed. Yufuko Tojo worked for an insurance company and continued her education after getting married.
After graduating from university, with the support of militarists, Tojo Yufuko founded an environmental protection agency that advertised environmental protection, but in essence continued to defend and whitewash Japan's crime-ridden history of World War II, and overturned the case for his grandfather Hideki Tojo.
Tojo Yubuko visited the Yasukuni Shrine several times, publicly denying that Japan's initiation of the war was a war of aggression, and calling it "Japan's forced self-defense."
In addition, she repeatedly denied the Nanjing incident, denied the massacre of the Japanese army, and asked the Japanese prime minister to "correct the name" of Tojo Hideki and other war criminals and remove them from their status as Class A war criminals. In addition, she published a book tout Hideki Tojo, calling him "an outstanding man who fought for the country."
In 1992, Tojo Yubuko also wrote a book, The Truth About the Great East Asian War, which was purely fabricated and fabricated, and attributed the cause of the Pacific War to the United States. In addition, the book also exaggerates the impact of the two atomic bombs in the United States, and in the book, Japan has become a victim.
Here, some readers may wonder why Yubuko is already married and should be changed to her surname according to reason, and why she is still called Tojo Yubuko.
In fact, there is a reason for this, Tojo Yubuko married husband named Iwanami Hiroyasu, after marriage, she also changed her name to Iwawami Yubuko according to Japanese customs. Because she often uses the surname Iwanami to publish and participate in events, this makes her husband Iwawami Hiroyasu very disgusted.
After an event, Iwanami Hiroyasu angrily yelled at Yubuko, "You can participate in these activities, but you are not allowed to use Iwawami's surname to engage in activities that support the Tojo family." Under the pressure of her husband, Yubuko could only change back to her original surname and become Tojo Yubuko again.
Tojo Yufuko's behavior is even hated by her father and husband, which shows how unpopular and stubborn she is. But the reason why Tojo Yubuko was able to set off a wave of overturning the case for the militarists shows how powerful the support behind it is.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > was rejected by the Japanese people</h1>
Yubu tojo's black and white behavior caused indignation among the people of the world and made the Japanese people very disgusted with her. In the eyes of the Japanese, Yufuko Tojo is just a beam-jumping clown who has been brainwashed by militarism.
However, the militarists' praise has led her to seriously misunderstand her popularity. Yufuko Tojo announced her candidacy for parliament in 2007, but her views were so disgusting to ordinary Japanese that she didn't get a few votes.
The crushing defeat in the campaign discouraged Yufuko Tojo, and in the years that followed, she faded out of politics. In 2013, the militarist Yubuko Tojo died of pneumonia, ending her ridiculous life.
The second son became a Japanese business tycoon
Born in 1914, Tojo is the second son of Hideki Tojo. Unlike his eldest brother, Tojo was deeply influenced by his father from an early age and always wanted to join the army and fight for the emperor. However, under his father's arrangement, Tojo Keio entered Japan to work at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Although he was a fanatical militarist, Hideki Tojo was well aware of the dangers of war. He could put ordinary Japanese on the battlefield, but he didn't want his favorite son to be cannon fodder.
Under the arrangement of Hideki Tojo, after graduating from Tokyo Imperial University, Tojo entered the safest and most important weapons design department.
Thanks to the efforts of Tojo and others, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries designed the famous Zero fighter. Through zero-style achievements, Tojo has gradually stepped into the management of Mitsubishi and become a dual talent proficient in design and management.
After Japan's defeat, Tojo was not implicated and continued to work at Mitsubishi. After the Japanese economy began to recover, Tojo became one of the heads of Mitsubishi's design department.
Under his leadership, Japan has produced new types of civil aviation airliners and transport aircraft with superior performance, and it can be said that Keio Tojo is a meritorious figure in the Japanese aviation industry.
After his success in the aviation industry, Tojo entered the top management of Mitsubishi Corporation and became one of the top figures in the Japanese business community. In 1981, Tojo became CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, becoming one of Japan's top entrepreneurs.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > Tojo is still a militarist</h1>
Although he did not enter politics, as Tojo Hideki's favorite son, Tojo Keio has always been very much in line with militarist ideas.
However, he did not dare to disobey the phrase "not to say anything" when his father was hanged. After acquiring a great deal of wealth, Tojo, although not as openly supportive of militarism as his niece Yufuko, often secretly funded extreme militarist organizations.
In 1986, the true face of tojo's militarists was revealed. Then-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone proposed that 12 Class-A war criminals be removed from the Yasukuni Shrine, a matter that drew strong opposition from militarists.
In the eyes of militarists, it is a supreme honor to be able to enjoy worship at the Yasukuni Shrine dedicated to war criminals.
For the sake of the glory of the Tojo family, both Tojo and Tojo Yufuko openly stood up against Yasuhiro Nakasone's proposal, and the matter was ultimately resolved.
After his retirement, Tojo, like his mother, lived a comfortable and peaceful old age. In 2012, Tojo died at the age of 98.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > the third son who rose all the way because of his father</h1>
Hideki Tojo's third son, Toshio, was the younger son of the Tojo family. Unlike his slightly low-key eldest brother, Toshio, who grew up with a passion for Japan's war of aggression. As a child, Toshio toshio always wanted to enter military school. Because he was too young, the war was over before Toshio Toshio graduated.
Due to his father's trial, Toshio Toshio did not find a suitable job after graduation and had to work as a worker in a kayak factory. Due to the lack of connections, Toshio Toshio's career has always been inferior to his two older brothers. In 1956, the United States, with the idea of containing communism, decided to use Japan as an anti-communist bridgehead in Asia.
At that time, the Japanese government obtained permission from the United States to establish the Japanese Self-Defense Force. At that time, a large number of old officers joined the Self-Defense Forces, and Toshio Toshio successfully became a member of the Self-Defense Forces through his father's old ministry.
In 1957, Kishi Nobusuke (Shinzo Abe's grandfather), who had escaped the Tokyo trial, was elected prime minister, and Kishi's rise to power marked a resurgence of right-wing forces in Japan.
Under Kishi's arrangement, a large number of Japanese militarists became the top brass of the government and the Self-Defense Forces. Toshio Tojo, as a descendant of the militarist leader Hideki Tojo, naturally received attention and preferential treatment.
During his decades in the Self-Defense Forces, Toshio Toshio performed rather mediocrely, but due to his father,000 years, he eventually retired as a major general in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. After his retirement, Toshio, like his mother and brother, lived a peaceful and comfortable life.
It can be said that by relying on the relationship of Hideki Tojo, several of his sons have had a very smooth career and even become prominent figures in Japanese society. However, from the perspective of Chinese, we should express our concern that the Tojo family can still soar.
Because the Tojo family was able to prosper because of the support of militarists, this also reflects that the Japanese militarist ideology is still circulating, which is a hidden danger to peace in Asia and even in the world.