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Japan: Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) after his attempted suicide on 8 September 1945.

Japan: Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) after his attempted suicide on 8 September 1945.

Hideki Tojo (30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from 18 October 1941 to 22 July 1944. Some historians hold him responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to America entering World War II. After the end of the war, Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and hanged on 23 December 1948.

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