Hideki Tojo Japanese Dictator

Role during WW2 Tojo was the prime minister of Japan during the attack of Pearl Harbor. He saw that Japan would lay with European dictators, such as Hitler. In November 1948, Tojo was put on trial as a war criminal, and was accused of instigating Japan's aggressive foreign policy in the early 1940's and of permitting the appalling abuse of prisoners-of- war, contrary to the Geneva Convention. Tojo was found guilty and hanged.

Pearl Harbor Tora! Tora! Tora! Which means, Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Was the prearranged code signal from the Pearl Harbor planes meaning: We have succeeded in a surprise attack. If it wasn’t Hitler who took the Holocaust into World War 2, then it was the Japanese attack upon the U.S. Naval base on Pearl Harbor. It stated in the 30s with our war with China.

Impact Since Tojo was a Minister of War, he made it clear that Japan should move east and take land that belonged to Europeans. After being appointed Prime Minister, Tojo was convinced that a war with America could not be avoided, and put Japan on full war alert. He thought that a huge blow out would completely remove America from the pacific. Thus, Tojo authorized the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Quotes “a massive knock-out blow would be sufficient to remove America from the Pacific” Tojo was portrayed as a negative leader to the United States, because he said the above quot. He wanted to remove America from the pacific, which he did not successfully do.

Individual Portrayal Tojo was a leader of the imperialistic “control faction” in the Army. He inflicted intense suffering on the peoples of East and Southeast Asia and He promoted all the major Army initiatives that led Japan to destruction. Among the actions he supported were the military’s, and especially the Army’s, seizure of power in Japan during the 1930s, the invasion of China in 1937, and the seizure of French Indochina in 1940–41. He argued successfully that Japan should respond to the embargo and launched the Pacific war.

Work cited tmhttp:// tm secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=2&edit ion=&ts=844BDAE149C88FC2A05D41DB05232A4C_ &start=1&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib %3Bdocument%3B Mantanle, Ivor. World War 2. London: Gibbon, J. David, 1989.