General Tojo Hideki, defendant, International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Born 3O December 1884; executed 23 December 1948. Graduated Military Academy (March 1905); Second Lieutenant, Infantry (April 1905); First Lieutenant (December 1907); Captain (June 1915); Major (August 1920); Instructor, Army Staff College (November 1922); Lieutenant Colonel (August 1923); Instructor, Army Staff College (March 1926); Colonel (August 1928); Major General (March 1933); Assistant Commandant, Military Academy (March 1934); Lieutenant General (December 1936); Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army (March 1937 — 1938); Vice Army Minister (30 May 1938 — 10 December 1938); Inspector General Army Air Forces (10 December 1938 — 1939); Army Minister, Second Konoe Cabinet (22 July 1940 — 17July 1941); Army Minister, Third Konoe Cabinet (18 July 1941 — 17 October 1941); General (October 1941); Prime Minister (18 October 1941 — 22 July 1944); Army Minister, Tojo Cabinet (18 October 1941 — 22 July 1944); Home Minister, Tojo Cabinet (18 October 1941 — 17 February 1942); Foreign Minister, Tojo Cabinet (1 September 1942 — 17 September 1942); Home Minister, Tojo Cabinet (25 November 1942 — 4 January 1943); Greater Asiatic Minister, Tojo Cabinet (16 April 1943 — 17 May 1943); Education Minister, Tojo Cabinet (20 April 1943 — 23 April 1943); Commerce and Industry Minister, Tojo Cabinet (8 October 1943 — 1 November 1943); Munitions Minister, Tojo Cabinet (1 November 1943 — 22 July 1944); Chief, Army General Staff (21 February 1944 — 22 July 1944); retired from Army (July 1944). Arrested 11 September 1945; designated war criminal by China andU .K.; appeared as defense witness at IMTFE. Charged on fifty counts (reduced to nine), found guilty on seven counts; sentenced to death by hanging.