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Hideki Tojo 2 (3x4 cropped)
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Young Tojo
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JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS Tojo hideki
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U.S. National Archives
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东条英机

東條英機
Dōngtiáo Yīngjī
proper noun #51,148

Meanings

  1. 1 Tojo Hideki, Prime Minister of Japan during most of WWII; hanged as a Class-A war criminal in 1948

About Hideki Tojo

1884–1948 · 政治家 politician

Army general who was prime minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944 and took it into war with the United States at Pearl Harbor. Hanged as a 甲级战犯 (Class-A war criminal), he is among those enshrined at 靖国神社.

Examples

HSK 5
东条英机是二战时期的日本首相。
Dōngtiáo Yīngjī shì Èrzhàn shíqī de Rìběn shǒuxiàng.
Tojo Hideki was Japan's prime minister during World War II.
HSK 7-9
东条英机于1948年被远东国际军事法庭判处死刑。
Dōngtiáo Yīngjī yú yījiǔsìbā nián bèi Yuǎndōng Guójì Jūnshì Fǎtíng pànchǔ sǐxíng.
Tojo Hideki was sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in 1948.

Tips

history
When American soldiers came to arrest him in September 1945, he shot himself in the chest but missed his heart. He was revived, nursed back to health and then tried at the Tokyo Trials.
usage
东条 is the Mandarin reading of the Japanese surname 東條 (Tōjō), and 英机 renders 英機 (Hideki), with the characters simplified. In PRC media the name is a shorthand for wartime Japanese militarism.

Stroke Order

东 dōng
条 tiáo
英 yīng
机 jī