Following his nation's surrender to the Allied powers in September 1945, he was arrested, convicted by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in the Tokyo Trials, sentenced to death, and hanged on 23 December 1948.

2008年12月12日 · General Tojo Hideki, the head of Japan's Second World War government was executed on Dec 23rd, 1948, for crimes against humanity.

2025年2月18日 · How did Tōjō Hideki die? Tōjō shot himself in a failed suicide attempt after Japan surrendered on September 11, 1945, but the Allies treated his wounds so he could stand trial for war crimes. A military tribunal found him guilty, and he was executed by hanging on December 23, 1948. Where is Tōjō Hideki buried? Tōjō was cremated.

2021年6月14日 · After his execution for war crimes in 1948 he and six others were cremated. A US Army aircraft then dropped their ashes in the ocean. Japanese lecturer Hiroaki Takazawa at Tokyo's Nihon University...

2015年8月28日 · In his memoir One Last Look Around (1947, pp. 93-113), war correspondent Clark Lee tells the story of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's suicide attempt and its aftermath. Lee was among a number of reporters at the scene when American officials arrived at Tojo's home in Setagaya, Tokyo to take him into custody in September 1945.

2021年6月15日 · Tojo and the six others who were hanged were among 28 Japanese wartime leaders tried for war crimes at the 1946-1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Twenty-five were convicted, including 16 sentenced to life in prison, with two getting shorter prison terms. Two others died while on trial and one case was dropped.

2024年11月12日 · In 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death by hanging. Tojo survived a suicide attempt three years earlier...

2021年6月15日 · TOKYO — Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s remains was one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese...

When American military police surrounded his house on September 8, 1945, they heard a muffled shot from inside. Tojo had shot himself, but despite shooting directly through a charcoal mark on his chest, the bullet missed his heart. A few minutes later, disarmed and with blood spreading on his shirt, Tojo began to talk.

2014年12月23日 · In September 1945, following Japan’s surrender, Tojo tried to resist capture by the Americans by committing suicide – shooting himself in the heart. With US military police pounding at his door, his doctor used a piece of charcoal to draw a circle on Tojo’s chest, pinpointing the exact location where Tojo should aim. However, Tojo somehow ...