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unusual facts about Hideki Tojo


Nakajima Ki-44

The Allied reporting name was "Tojo"; the Japanese Army designation was "Army Type 2 Single-Seat Fighter" (二式単座戦闘機).


Gents Without Cents

The Stooges' audition for the agent includes parodies of Hideki Tōjō (Larry), Benito Mussolini (Curly), and Adolf Hitler (Moe).

Shunya Itō

In 1998 he directed the World War II drama Pride: The Fateful Moment presenting a humane view of Hideki Tōjō on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Sōkichi Takagi

Believing the only solution for Japan was the elimination of the Tojo-led government and negotiation of a truce with the United States, Takagi was hesitant to present the report to Shimada, instead beginning planning for the assassination of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō before his removal from office in July 1944.

The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away

The narrator's father was 'associated with the military', and was part of an anti-Tojo movement in the Kanto Army to promote General Ishiwara; after the plan failed, he returned to the village on New Year's Day 1943 and shut himself up in the storehouse.

Two Down and One to Go

Opening with a fasces being splintered over Italy, and a swastika being exploded over Germany, the film cuts to an Arthur Szyk caricature of Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tōjō, an X being superimposed on the respective dictators, then turning to Tojo.

War Leaders: Clash of Nations

In Campaign Mode, the player can chose to play as one of seven real-life "war leaders"-Franklin Roosevelt (USA), Winston Churchill (UK), Benito Mussolini (Italy), Hideki Tōjō (Empire of Japan), Charles de Gaulle (France) Adolf Hitler (Nazi Germany) and Joseph Stalin (USSR).


see also

Tojo

Yuko Tojo (1939-2013), Japanese ultra-nationalist politician and granddaughter of Hideki Tojo