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spidge · 13-10-2007, 04:35 PM

Hideki Tojo Biography (1885–1948)

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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spidge Super Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 3,291 You're Top Poster: #3 Awards Showcase Total Awards: 6	Hideki Tojo Biography (1885–1948) Hideki Tojo Biography (1885–1948) 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. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm