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China Daily raps Japan PM Takaichi for recent Taiwan comments

Photo taken in Beijing on Nov. 24, 2025, shows the Nov. 24 edition of China's state-owned English-language newspaper China Daily satirically portraying Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi standing in front of a mirror and projecting herself as wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The paper branded Takaichi's recent remarks on Taiwan as "the militarist's path to revival."

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Peace advocacy by descendants of wartime leaders

(from L) Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, third-generation Holocaust survivor Magali Brosh, Jennifer Teege, granddaughter of a Nazi concentration camp commander, and Hidetoshi Tojo, great-grandson of Japan's wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo, hold a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, as the year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. They will visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki later in the month as part of the peace advocacy project "Hope 80."

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Bill with autographs of WW2 Japanese war criminals

Photo taken in DeKalb, Illinois, in November 2024 shows a 100-yen bill with autographs believed to be those of Japanese war criminals, including Class-A war criminals executed for war crimes after World War II, such as Japan's former Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo (1884-1948). The bill belonged to the late Donald Faivre, an Illinois farmer who served as a guard at Tokyo's Sugamo Prison, where such war criminals were held during the Allied occupation.

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Japan's former Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo

Undated file photo shows Japan's former Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo (1884-1948). Tojo served as prime minister between 1941 and 1944 during World War II, and was one of the 14 Class-A war criminals executed by hanging for crimes against peace.

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Japanese antiwar journalist Muno turns 100

TOKYO, Japan - Takeji Muno, a prominent antiwar journalist in Japan whose career has included covering both wartime prime ministers, Fumimaru Konoe and Hideki Tojo, speaks during an interview in Saitama north of Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014, ahead of his 100th birthday on Jan.2, 2015. Wary of the "smells of war" brought about by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies such as a national secrecy law and the push for the right to exercise collective self-defense, Muno vowed to continue to speak out for as long as he lives.

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Gen. Hideki Tojo said Yasukuni ought only to honor dead vets

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a copy of a secret document dated July 15, 1944, issued under the name of Army Minister Hideki Tojo. The document says only military personnel and civilian military employees whose deaths ''resulted directly from military service'' should be enshrined at Yasukuni.

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Granddaughter of Gen. Tojo loses in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Tojo, a granddaughter of Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime prime minister who was hanged after being convicted as a Class-A war criminal, speaks to Kyodo News in an interview. She dismisses as ''non-sense'' calls for building a government-funded memorial for the war dead.

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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.

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1941 Sunday Express Russian Army retakes Orel

1941 front page Sunday Express Russian Army retakes Orel and General Hideki Tojo is new leader of Japanese Cabinet Date: 19th October 1941

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1941 The Times Battle for Moscow

1941 page 4 The Times Battle for Moscow, General Hideki Tojo is new leader of Japanese Cabinet Sergeant John Hinson wins Victoria Cross Date: 18th October 1941

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1941 Daily Herald Battle for Moscow

1941 front page Daily Herald Battle for Moscow and General Hideki Tojo is new leader of Japanese Cabinet Date: 20th October 1941

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1941 Daily Herald Battle for Moscow

1941 front page Daily Herald Battle for Moscow, General Hideki Tojo is new leader of Japanese Cabinet and Sergeant John Hinson wins Victoria Cross Date: 18th October 1941

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1941 The Times Battle for Moscow

1941 page 4 The Times Battle for Moscow, Wendell Willkie calls on U.S. to join the war and General Hideki Tojo is new leader of Japanese Cabinet Date: 20th October 1941

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1941 Daily Mirror Battle for Moscow

1941 front page Daily Mirror Battle for Moscow, Howard Trevor charged for the murder of Theodora Greenhill and General Hideki Tojo is new leader of Japanese Cabinet Date: 20th October 1941

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1945 Daily Mail Attempted suicide of Hideki Tojo

1945 Daily Mail front page reporting the attempted suicide of Hideki Tojo Date: 12th September 1945

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WWII - Wanted! Hitler and Admiral Tojo- First Day Cover

WWII - Wanted: Dead or Alive! Adolf Hitler and Japanese General Hideki Tojo (a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II) - \'Must be brought to jusice in 1944!\' - First Day Cover1944

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Hideki Tojo ice cream bars sold in Shanghai

Photo shows ice cream bars resembling executed Japanese class-A war criminal Hideki Tojo being sold by an ice cream chain in Shanghai on Sept. 3, 2015. China marked the 70th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe sends offering as Cabinet ministers visit war-linked shrine

Visitors line up at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the war dead on Aug. 15, 2015, the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The Shinto shrine has been a source of diplomatic friction between Japan and several of its Asian neighbors as it honors wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo and other convicted war criminals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe sends offering as Cabinet ministers visit war-linked shrine

Visitors line up at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the war dead on Aug. 15, 2015, the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The Shinto shrine has been a source of diplomatic friction between Japan and several of its Asian neighbors as it honors wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo and other convicted war criminals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Final words, belongings of Class A war criminals shown at temple

Photo taken at Sorinji, a Buddhist temple in Kanazawa, central Japan, on Sept. 12, 2015, shows a copy of signatures written in ink by seven Japanese Class A war criminals, including that of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo (3rd from R), just before they were hanged on Dec. 23, 1948. It is one of items shown on public display at the temple. They were given by the criminals' kin and other persons involved to chief priest Shocho Hanayama's grandfather Shinsho, who served as a chaplain at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo and was the only Japanese present to witness the Class A criminals being hanged. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gen. Hideki Tojo said Yasukuni ought only to honor dead vets

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a copy of a secret document dated July 15, 1944, issued under the name of Army Minister Hideki Tojo. The document says only military personnel and civilian military employees whose deaths ''resulted directly from military service'' should be enshrined at Yasukuni. (Kyodo)

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Granddaughter of Gen. Tojo loses in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Tojo, a granddaughter of Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime prime minister who was hanged after being convicted as a Class-A war criminal, fails to win a seat in the House of Councillors election on July 29. Tojo, a 68-year-old independent, was one of the 20 candidates who contested five upper house seats in the Tokyo metropolitan electoral district. (Kyodo)

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Japanese antiwar journalist Muno turns 100

TOKYO, Japan - Takeji Muno, a prominent antiwar journalist in Japan whose career has included covering both wartime prime ministers, Fumimaru Konoe and Hideki Tojo, speaks during an interview in Saitama north of Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014, ahead of his 100th birthday on Jan.2, 2015. Wary of the "smells of war" brought about by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies such as a national secrecy law and the push for the right to exercise collective self-defense, Muno vowed to continue to speak out for as long as he lives. (Kyodo)

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Japan wartime PM Tojo

Photo taken in November 1948 shows former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo hearing his death sentence at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan wartime PM Hideki Tojo

Undated file photo shows Gen. Hideki Tojo, who served as Japanese prime minister from 1941 to 1944. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan wartime PM Tojo

Undated photo shows Gen. Hideki Tojo who served as Japanese prime minister from 1941 to 1944. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sugamo Prison door revealed

An official holds a No. 13 door of the old Sugamo Prison, said to have led to its execution room, at a Justice Ministry facility in Akishima, Tokyo, on Oct. 5, 2018. At the prison controlled by the General Headquarters of the Allied forces in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, seven Class-A World War II criminals, including former Japanese Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo were executed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sugamo Prison door revealed

An official holds a No. 13 door of the old Sugamo Prison, said to have led to its execution room, at a Justice Ministry facility in Akishima, Tokyo, on Oct. 5, 2018. At the prison controlled by the General Headquarters of the Allied forces in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, seven Class-A World War II criminals, including former Japanese Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo were executed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sugamo Prison door revealed

An official holds a No. 13 door of the old Sugamo Prison, said to have led to its execution room, at a Justice Ministry facility in Akishima, Tokyo, on Oct. 5, 2018. At the prison controlled by the General Headquarters of the Allied forces in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, seven Class-A World War II criminals, including former Japanese Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo were executed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (Kyodo)

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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

TOKYO, Japan- File photo of General Hideki Tojo, Class-A war criminal. The photo was taken in November 1945. (Kyodo)

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Hideki Tojo

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of then Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Class-A war criminal. The photo was taken on Dec. 31, 1941. (Kyodo)

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Hideki Tojo

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of then Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Class-A war criminal. The photo was taken on Dec. 31, 1941. (Kyodo)

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Hideki Tojo

TOKYO, Japan- General Hideki Tojo, Class-A war criminal, speaks for radio broadcasting. The photo was taken on Oct. 22, 1941. (Kyodo)