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Prime Minister
Hideki Tojo
was born in Tokyo, Japan,
on 30th December 1884. He joined the Japanese Army
and his military service included periods in Switzerland and
Germany.
Tojo became Prime Minister on 16th October 1941. He initially backed the foreign office's efforts to reach agreement with the United States. However, when convinced that a negotiated deal was not possible, ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7th December, 1941. As well as Prime Minister Tojo also held the posts of Minister of War, Home Minister and Foreign Minister. From February 1944 he was also Commander in Chief of the General Staff. Tojo, aware that Japan was unable to win the war, resigned from office after the loss of Saipan in July 1944. He shot himself in the chest just before he was arrested by the US Military in 1945. Tojo survived and after being nursed back to health was tried as a war criminal. Hideki Tojo was executed on 23rd December 1948. |
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto "In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success." Admiral Yamamoto, 1940
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