Tojo
Japan's wartime premier
Tojo refers to Hideki Tojo, the Japanese military general and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II (1941-1944).
He was a principal architect of Japan's military expansion and the decision to attack Pearl Harbor.
After Japan's surrender, Tojo was tried for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and executed in 1948.
His name sometimes appears in historical discussions as shorthand for Japanese militarism during the war.
Violator of combat laws
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- Tokyo TrialsPostwar Japanese leadership prosecution
- executionCompleting a planned task
- hangedKilled by noose
convicted · atrocity · Nuremberg · indictment · prosecution · verdict · gallows · MacArthur
Hawaiian military port attacked 1941
- AxisWartime fascist alliance
- Pacific WarAllied-Japanese naval conflict
- invasionForcible entry into territory
- occupationOne's regular paid work
Manchuria · militarism · expansion · aggression · campaign · strategy · alliance · Southeast Asia
- imperialRelating to supreme rule
- TokyoJapan's capital city
- 1940sFourth decade, twentieth century
- Rising SunSolar emergence at dawn
nationalism · ultranationalism · propaganda · indoctrination · bushido · Yamato
Leader of a parliamentary state
- generalWidespread, not specialized
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- military leaderArmed forces commander
- dictatorRuler with total control
warlord · authoritarian · supreme command · war cabinet · chief of staff · hardliner · militarist · autocrat
war criminal
Violator of combat laws
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- Tokyo TrialsPostwar Japanese leadership prosecution
- executionCompleting a planned task
hanged · convicted · atrocity · Nuremberg · indictment · prosecution · verdict · gallows · MacArthur · culpability
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian military port attacked 1941
- AxisWartime fascist alliance
- Pacific WarAllied-Japanese naval conflict
- invasionForcible entry into territory
occupation · Manchuria · militarism · expansion · aggression · campaign · strategy · alliance · Southeast Asia · China
Emperor Hirohito
Rising Sun · nationalism · ultranationalism · propaganda · indoctrination · bushido · Yamato
prime minister
Leader of a parliamentary state
- generalWidespread, not specialized
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- military leaderArmed forces commander
dictator · warlord · authoritarian · supreme command · war cabinet · chief of staff · hardliner · militarist · autocrat · headquarters
- World LeadersChurchill, Winston Churchill, Eisenhower, Gorbachev, Thatcher
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
- Axis MilitaryWehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Afrika Korps, Waffen-SS, panzer
- Axis PowersGermany, Italy, Japan, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan
- dictatorsdictator, tyrant, despot, autocrat, Stalin
- Imperial JapanEmperor Hirohito, Hirohito, Rising Sun, Meiji, kamikaze
Winston Churchill · Douglas MacArthur · Harry Truman · Chiang Kai-shek · Dwight D. Eisenhower