The chief characters of the climactic scenes were Hideki (“The Razor”) Tojo and Ryukichi (“The Monster”) Tanaka. Neither expected to live long. War Criminal Tojo expected to be hanged by ...

The ashes of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Class-A war criminals executed in Tokyo on the same day in 1948 were scattered over the Pacific Ocean, according to declassified U.S ...