Hideki Tojo, a Japanese Class A war criminal, was born in 1884 in Japan to a military family, received a militarist education from an early age, and was an out-and-out militant. His father, Tojo Ingen, was the initiator of the Sino-Japanese War, and he was the leader of Japan's war of aggression against China. During the reign of Hideki Tojo, he not only actively planned and continued to pursue the policy of aggression against China, but also expanded the scope of the war of aggression from China to the Pacific and Southeast Asia. This move has undoubtedly brought heavy disasters to the people of the entire Asian region. The photo of the Middle East Ishikichi is paying tribute to the Japanese people.
On August 15, 1945, the Japanese Emperor announced Japan's unconditional surrender by radio, and Hideki Tojo realized that he had gone. On September 11, the Allied General Command issued the "First Order" to arrest Hideki Tojo. Major Klaus, the Allied General Command, led the American gendarmes to Hideki Tojo's private residence. Hideki Tojo was already in a state of desperation at this point, and he tricked Klaus into going to the study in order to cut himself off. I don't know if death was too terrible, Hideki Tojo's bullet did not hit his own heart in the end. In the photo, the doctor rescues Hideki Tojo.
After a period of treatment, Hideki Tojo was able to recover and was immediately sent to Sugamo Prison in Tokyo to begin a three-year trial. As a Class-A War Criminal of Japan, Hideki Tojo committed the crime of "destroying the peace and launching a war of aggression." During this time, Hideki Tojo never admitted to the heinous crimes he had committed and tried to defend himself. In the photo is Hideki Tojo at The Duck Nest Prison in Tokyo.
On April 29, 1946, the Far Eastern Military Tribunal indicted 28 war criminals, and of the 55 crimes listed by prosecutors, Hideki Tojo alone accounted for 54, the largest of all. Unsurprisingly, the brazen Hideki Tojo openly claimed his innocence during the trial and tried to excuse himself, even clamoring for self-defense. In desperation, the court finally decided to give Hideki Tojo a chance to defend himself. In the photo is Hideki Tojo at a military tribunal.
On December 26, 1947, Hideki Tojo's self-defense began, which attracted widespread attention around the world. Text reporters and photojournalists from various news agencies, newspapers and newspapers were waiting at the scene, and even General MacArthur's wife and daughter came to the scene of the trial. But people were not optimistic about Hideki Tojo's defense, and even Japan's domestic newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, made such a confession that "in any case, such a supreme responsible person for the war, a rare dictator, gambled in a stupid war with the fate of 80 million people." "In the photo is Hideki Tojo, who is defending in court.
During the trial, Hideki Tojo shamelessly held that the accusations about the "918" incident, the "July 7" incident, and a series of so-called aggressive plans, such as the Pacific War, were all nonsense. In addition, the wars waged against Britain and the United States were triggered by these countries. For Japan, Japan is a pure last resort, for the sake of Japan's own stability and for the sake of the wishes of the nations of the greater East Asian countries. In the course of the war, no violations of international law had occurred, and his inability to bear the charges of these war crimes was truly jaw-dropping. In the photo are Hideki Tojo and a lawyer.
Even so, Hideki Tojo still did not escape the punishment he deserved. On November 12, 1948, all Japanese war criminals were accused of hearing their own guilt and innocence. Hideki Tojo stood in the defendant's seat, his lips tightly closed, his expression tense and stiff. At 3:53 p.m., President Webb solemnly announced the final sentence of Hang's death sentence. When he learned that he was going to be executed, hideki Tojo smiled bitterly, and then looked at the auditorium with a miserable white face, feeling as if he was looking for his relatives. The photo shows Hideki Tojo standing in a court-martial for the last time.
In the process of waiting for the final execution moment, in order to prevent Hideki Tojo from committing suicide, eight American gendarmes took turns to guard, checking every fifteen minutes. On December 21, Hideki Tojo received a notification that he was about to be hanged, but he made two requests, another Japanese meal before his death, and a goodbye to the instructor Hanayama Nobukatsu, and the U.S. military agreed. But probably out of fear of death, he did not eat a few bites of food, and when Hanayama Nobukatsu prayed, Hideki Tojo's face turned pale and his face convulsed like a blank piece of paper in the wind. In the photo, the US military doctor examines Hideki Tojo.
When the executioner slowly lowered the noose, he found that Hideki Tojo's face was full of tears, was he confessing the crime he had committed in his life? Apparently not, he was crying perhaps out of fear or remorse for his attempted shooting. Subsequently, Hideki Tojo was burned by the U.S. military, and the ashes were scattered into the sea. But the three Japanese who were responsible for the cremation did not give all the ashes to the U.S. military, but secretly left a little behind and hid it in secret. Although Hideki Tojo died, the legacy of his militaristic ideas has not yet dissipated.