This man was Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. He served as the leader of Japan from 1941 to 1944. He was the most significant advocate for a preemptive strike against the United States at Pearl Harbor.

F ortnight ago a bald little Japanese general nicknamed The Razor became Premier of Japan. Hideki Tojo’s* sparse mustache looks as if it might blow off in a stiff breeze and his tortoise-shell ...

Last October when the army made him Premier, garrulous General Hideki Tojo said: “I am awed with trepidation at my limited ability.” It was a mild speech for The Razor, whose voice had long ...

On Dec. 23, 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of the Allied War Crimes Commission.

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death by hanging.