biography
pronunciation:
[tohjoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1948)
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| biography:
| Japanese general, statesman, and prime minister (1941–4), born in Tokyo, Japan. He attended military college, became military attaché in Germany (1919), served in Manchuria as chief-of-staff (1937–40), and during World War 2 was minister of war (1940–1) and premier. Convinced Japan must fight the USA, he planned the war strategy originating with the attack on Pearl Harbor, seeing Japan as a liberating force in Asia against Western domination. Arrested in 1945, he attempted to commit suicide, but was hanged as a war criminal. |
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