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82nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack

Japanese Consul General in Honolulu Yoshinori Kodama makes a speech at a memorial service commemorating the victims of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii held on Ford Island, an islet in the harbor, on Dec. 8, 2023.

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82nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack

Japanese Consul General in Honolulu Yoshinori Kodama (R) offers flowers at a memorial service commemorating the victims of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii held on Ford Island, an islet in the harbor, on Dec. 8, 2023.

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Ex-U.S. Transportation Secretary Mineta

WASHINGTON, United States - Norman Mineta, a former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, is pictured during an interview with Kyodo News in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2011, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Mineta said he saw for the first time his father, an immigrant to San Jose, California, from Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture, cry following the attack.

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Pearl Harbor attack's 70th anniv.

HONOLULU, United States - Adm. Patrick Walsh (4th from R), commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, a veteran (5th from R) and other ceremony participants salute at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, held in a park overlooking the harbor on Dec. 7, 2011.

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Commemorating Pearl Harbor

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. veterans and other people attend a ceremony at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 2010, to commemorate victims of Japan's 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo taken on Dec. 7, 1941 shows the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor under attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo taken on Dec. 7, 1941 shows U.S. battleships bursting into flames following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Nobusuke Kishi

Born Nov. 13, 1896 in Yamaguchi Prefecture and deceased on Aug. 7, 1987. Kishi was a bureaucrat-turned politician who served as prime minister between 1957 and 1960. As a member of the cabinet of Hideki Tojo from 1941 to 1944, Kishi was in charge of Japan's economic mobilization in the war against the U.S. Though imprisoned by the occupation authorities as a class-A war criminal, he was released in 1948. As prime minister, Kishi signed the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty in 1960. Kishi had great influence in Japan's conservative political community until he died at the age of 90. His younger brother Eisaku Sato also served as prime minister. (Photo was taken on Dec. 23, 1964)

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Hideki Tojo

Born on Dec. 30, 1884 and died on Dec. 23, 1948. Tojo was army general and served as prime minister from 1941 to 1944. In July 1940, Tojo was appointed to the post of army minister and pushed for the conclusion of the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy. Following his taking office as prime minister in October 1941, Japan made a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 (Dec. 8 Japan time). In July 1944, he was removed from office. Just before being arrested as a class A war criminal, he attempted to kill himself on Sept. 11, 1945. Tojo was indicted by the International Military Tribunal and was hanged on Dec. 23, 1948.