Hideki Tojo

Hideki Tojo was a Japanese politician, general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for most of World War II. She assumed several more positions including chief of staff of the Imperial Army before ultimately being removed from power in July 1944. During her years in power, her leadership was marked by extreme state-perpetrated violence in the name of Japanese ultranationalism, much of which she was personally involved in. Hideki Tojo was born on December 30, 1884, to a re...