Tojo Hideki was sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in 1948.
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As PM from 1941 to 1944, Tojo authorized the attack on Pearl Harbor and oversaw Japan's wartime atrocities across Asia. He attempted suicide when U.S. troops came to arrest him, survived, and was convicted at the Tokyo Trials.
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东条 is the Chinese reading of the Japanese surname 東條 (Tōjō); 英机 renders 英機 (Hideki). In PRC media the name is a shorthand for wartime Japanese militarism.
