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Tojo, Hideki 1885-1948
Japanese soldier

Born in Tokyo, in 1919 he was appointed military attaché in Germany. He served with the Kwantung army in Manchuria as Chief of the Secret Police and Chief of Staff from 1937 to 1940. He became Minister of War (1940-41) and from 1941 he was premier and dictator of Japan, resigning in 1944. Arrested, he attempted and failed to commit suicide. He was sentenced to death in 1948.

Bibliography: Courtney Browne, Tojo: The Last Banzai (1967)