General Hideki Tojo's Role In Ww2

Tojo was born on December 30, 1884 in Tokyo, Japan. He was the oldest son out of three of Hidenori Tojo, his father who was also a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1899, Tojo entered the Army Cadet School following his fathers footsteps. When he graduated from the Japanese

Once he was taken into custody by the rehabilitation center for child war veterans he and a kid he met at the center by the name of Mambu started a fight between the rebel and army children. The army kids killed four rebels and wounded several others using bayonets

On May 1, 1943, he was shot in the right ankle. He was then taken to the Majdanek.

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He was executed at the same place the massacre took place. He very calmly took off his coat and gave his hat to the marshal. He very calmly sat down on his coffin and he had requested to let his hands free. His request was granted. But he had to be blind folded. This execution was a sad time for John d. Lee.

Hideki Tojo was born on December 30, 1884 in Tokyo, Japan. His fathers name was Hidenori Tojo, a Samurai that turned into an Army officer. His Mom was the daughter of a Buddhist priest. They were very poor. Tojo was raised to be a soldier. When he was little a message was drilled into his head (and the other boys at the school with him) that war was beautiful and that the Japanese emperor was an actual living god, so it would be an honor to die for him. Japanese girls were taught that it was an honor to have a lot of sons so that they could die in the war for the Emperor. When Tojo was young he was very stubborn, He was not nice and he loved to get into fights and he always got what he wanted. He was not very smart, but people were infatuated with his ability to work very hard. Tojo always said, "I am just an ordinary guy with no shunting talents. Anything I have achieved I owe to my capacity for hard work and never giving up." Browne, P. 20. At 15 years old, Tojo entered into the Army Cadet School. He graduated from the Japanese Military Academy, he was ranked 10th best cadet out of 363. Later in March he was ordered to be the second lieutenant in the infantry of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was very angry when Japan made the Treaty of Portsmouth, that ended the war with Russia. He

After the assassination the FBI began a large scale international manhunt for the assassin. Eventually finding the assassin and giving him a Life sentence of 100 Years. Where he eventually died of liver failure and kidney failure due to hepatitis C.

Isoroku argued for war with the U.S once Japan made the decision to invade the rich part of Southeast Asia. On dec. 7 1941 under the command of Vice Adm his carries scored a victory over the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor. This helped to ensure a prolonged and total war. He tried to destroy U.S ships that weren't caught a Pearl Harbor but that plan failed because the United States had information about the Japanese forces but he also failed because his plans were too complex for the others to understand on how to fully carry out. Even though he was a better tactical than strategist he was the most prominent officer during World War ll.

General Hideki Tojo or TÔJÔ HIDEKI was born on December 30, 1884, in Kōjimachi, Tokyo, Japan. He was born into a family of samurai descent. In 1899 as a child he went to to military school, as in following in the footsteps of his father. In his enrollment to military school, he went on to serve in the Latter War. Soon he would graduate from army war college with honors and later be sent abroad for study in Europe. When he returned in 1922 he served as a military science instructor at the war college.

During that summer he took many different back strengthening exercises, and in September he was accepted by the Navy. In March 1943, as a lieutenant he took command of a PT (torpedo) boat in the Solomon Islands. On the night of August 2, his boat was cruising west of New Georgia it was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He rallied the survivors and managed to get them to an island after being thrown across the deck onto his back. He then towed a wounded man three miles through a rough journey through different seas. He was a very brave man, for several days he risked his life repeatedly, swimming into dangerous waters hoping to find a rescue ship. He finally met up with two friendly islanders and sent them for aid with a message that he carved on a coconut. Back home he received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, and the Purple Heart, but his earlier back injury had been aggravated, and unfortunately he contracted malaria. After an operation on his back, he was discharged early in 1945.

Felix Longoria is a name that should be recognizable to the general public, but sadly is not. This young father and husband answered the call of duty in November of 1944 and after basic training was immediately shipped off to fight in the Philippines. Serving as an infantryman he volunteered to join a patrol that was to weed out and exterminate enemy snipers. On June, 16th, 1945 he would give the ultimate sacrifice for his nation while on this particular patrol. According to the reports that his family received, the war department found that the cause of death occurred when a mortar was fired towards him and half of his body was eviscerated. Since the war effort was still ongoing it would be three years before his body would be able to come home to Three Rivers, Texas for a proper burial.

Tôjô Hideki was born December 30, 1884 in Kojimachi, Tokyo and he died December 23, 1948. He was married to Katsuko Tojo who died 34 years after him. Tôjô Hideki was the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during World War Ⅱ and was allied with Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini. Tôjô joined the Axis Powers on September 27, 1940 yet only became hostile with the allies on December 7, 1941.

In 1935–41 he served as the military adviser to the Philippine government. In July 1941 he was named commander of US forces in the Far East but, overwhelmed by the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, he was ordered to leave his forces on Bataan peninsula (with his promise ‘I shall return!’) and go to Australia. In 1942–5, as commander of the Southwest Pacific area (1942–5), he organized an island-hopping offensive that resulted in the return of US forces to the Philippines (Oct 1944). Supreme commander of the Allied powers, he presided over the Japanese surrender (2 Sep 1945). As military governor of Japan (1945–50), he was a benevolent dictator in forcing Japan to purge itself of its militarism and to adopt more democratic ways.

World War II end it, while the Cold War just started. As an old realist like Niccolò Machiavelli would say “the end justifies the means.” The thinker would had agree with President’s Truman decision if only Japan would had been stronger and ready to keep on fighting and a an outcome of understanding would had come out. The poor excused, if payed attention, if Japan does not provide absolute surrender, although its people have sworn loyalty to the Emperor at that time, they would be attack. United States officials Byrnes and Baruh influenced Truman in using Japan, although he denies it, as an experiment arena for the atomic bombs. David McCullough wrote a biography of Truman and he mention how the Secretary of State, Stettinius was truly not an expert of foreign policy and did not know what he was doing.