Dec. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, construction began on the first permanent European settlement in New England. It was one week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in ...

Ever since his execution in 1948, some historians of World War II have wondered how the remains of wartime Japanese Prime Minister and convicted Class A war criminal Hideki Tojo were disposed of.

December 5, 1943, was a Sunday, but my grandfather, with some pending work to complete, was all set to leave for his office ...

The ashes of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Class-A war criminals executed in Tokyo on the same day in 1948 were scattered over the Pacific Ocean, according to declassified U.S ...

Image Credit: Bettmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo (also known as Tojo Hideki) was among those arrested for war crimes following the Allied ...

Each morning at sunrise Japan’s most importantsitting-down soldier, Premier General Hideki Tojo, rides Tokyo’sstreets for half an hour. Policeman Ono was overcome with trepidationone morning ...

For three-quarters of a century, historians have sorted through the “war aims” of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.

Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo were both tried and convicted of war crimes after the war. Hitler committed suicide before he could be executed, while Tojo was hanged. In 1949, the Allies established ...

The wartime code of conduct, released by Hideki Tojo, then the army minister, in January 1941, demands one should die rather than be taken prisoner, and is said to have led many people to commit ...