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Hideki Tōjō (東條英機, 1884 - 1948) was general and Prime Minister for the Japan during the Second world war. It was condemned to be hung by the Tribunal of Tōkyō.

Biography

Hideki Tōjō was born with Tōkyō (Japan), in 1884. It was the third wire of Hidenori Tōjō, a Lieutenant-general in the Armée imperial Japanese woman. The two big brothers of Tōjō died before his birth. In 1909, it Maria with Katsuko Itō, with which he had three wire and four girls.

In 1905, it left the imperial Military academy of Tōkyō and entered the army as a second lieutenant in the Infanterie. It quickly climbs the levels in the army; in 1915, it left the military college with excellent notes. Following that, it gave courses to the college and was useful as a Officier in the infantry. In 1919, it undertook to travel in Europe (Suisse, Germany).

In Years 1920, Tōjō was member of Tōseiha (“group of control”, to take again the name that its adversaries gave him), in company of Kazushige Ugaki, Hajime Sugiyama, Kuniaki Koiso, Yoshijirō Umezu and Tetsuzan Nagata. They represented the preserving wing moderate in opposition to the Kōdōha (“imperial group of bienveillence”), guided inter alia by Sadao Araki, whose object was the inversion of the structures in place and dissolution of the Zaibatsu. Two factions being resulting from the Company of the Double Sheet, a secret society follower of the ultranationalism.

In 1935, Tōjō was promoted Colonel, with the head of the Kempeitai (the police force of the Army) of the Kantōgun (also known under the name of Armée with Guandong) in the State marionette of Manzhouguo.

During the Incidental of 26-February, Tōjō was opposed to the attempt Putsch of Kōdōha, subdued under the orders of the emperor Hirohito. Following this incident, Tōseiha could carry out purgings in the army aiming at the radical officers and the instigators of the putsch were considered and carried out.

In 1938, Tōjō was promoted vice-minister of the Army. From December 1938 with 1940, he was general inspector of the air Service of the Japanese imperial army. It was also responsible for the Secret services Japanese before and during the Guerre of the Pacific, maintaining contacts indirect with Kōki Hirota, directing black Dragons and others secret societies. Like number of soldiers and family members imperial, it was favorable to the accession of Japan to the Axe, the sides of the Germany and the Italy.

During its stay with the ministry for the Interior, Tōjō directed the Keishichō (police force of Tōkyō). Appointed Minister for the Army in 1940 by Fumimaro Konoe, it remained at this station in the third cabinet of Konoe. After the resignation of Konoe in 1941, Tōjō was named Prime Minister by the emperor Hirohito while remaining Minister for the Armée imperial Japanese woman.

However, after a series of defeats, culminating with the falls of Saipan, it was given up by its partisans and was thanked by Hirohito the July 18th 1944. It then withdrew first list of reserve and government.

At the time of the lawsuit of Tōkyō, Tōjō declared at the time of its first interrogation that “no one could not be opposed to the emperor”, implying that only Hirohito could make decisions such as bombarding Pearl Harbor or putting an end to the war. After an adjournment of hearing, Tōjō succumbed to the pressures of the prosecutor as a chief Joseph Keenan and retracted by affirming at the time of a second interrogation that its emperor had always been a man of peace.

Condemned by the court of Tōkyō in 1948, it was hung the December 22nd 1948. Its heart is honoured with the Sanctuaire with Yasukuni.

The nickname of Tōjō was “the Razor” ( “Kamisori” ).

Government of Tōjō

External bond

  • Biography of Hideki Tōjō, on the site 1939-45.org

Simple: Hideki Tojo

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