In Tokyo last week, after 18 months of legal bickering and monotonous reading of documents, the drowsy courtroom in the old War Ministry building came to life. The chief characters of the climactic ...

On May 5, 1943, a Japanese airplane landed at Nichols Field, a former American airfield south of Manila. The airplane carried the most powerful man in Imperial Japan. This man was Prime Minister ...

Hideki Tojo takes the stand for the first time in Tokyo in 1947 - Hulton In March 1943, on the island of New Guinea, a young Australian pilot was put on a truck by his Japanese captors. It was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By September 1945, World War II had ...

TOKYO — Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being "frightened," a newly ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93.

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, construction began on the first permanent European settlement in New England. It was one week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in ...

From a two-story brown brick quake-proof building in Tokyo, a metallic voice addressed the people of Japan one night last week. The voice was Premier Hideki Tojo’s. The subject: total mobilization.

Last October when the army made him Premier, garrulous General Hideki Tojo said: “I am awed with trepidation at my limited ability.” It was a mild speech for The Razor, whose voice had long cried for ...

Nov. 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1892, the first professional football game was played in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny Athletic Association defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0.