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The cabinet of Japanese Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoe, which resigned on July 16, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, en bloc. From Left to right are: Front Row: War Minister Hideki Tojo; Welfare Minister Tsuneo Kanemitsu; Premier Konoye; Home Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma; Overseas Minister Kiyoshi Akita; Education Minister Kuhihiko Hashida; and Commerce and Industry Minister Ichizo Kobayashi. Second row from left to right: Justice Minister Heisuke Yanagawa; Communications Minister Shozo Murata; Dr. Nobumi Ito, President of Information; Navy Minister Koshiro Oikawa; Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka; Finance Minister Isao Kawada; Agriculture and Forestry Minister Tadaatsu Ishigurd; Chief Sec. of the Cabinet Kenji Tomita, and Railway Minister Gotaro Ogawa.
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In this Dec. 7, 1941, file photo, smoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Premier General Hideki Tojo and his cabinet following ceremonies opening a special session of the diet on Nov. 16, 1942. In front, left to right: Navy Minister Admiral Shigetaro Shimada; Finance Minister Okinori Kaya; premier Tojo; Education minister Kunihiko Hashida; planning Board President Lieut. General Teuchi Suzuki, and Agriculture and Forestry Minister Hiroya Ino. In center, left to right: Elich Moriyama, Chief of the legislative Bureau; Chief Cabinet secretary Nacki Hoshino; Railway and Communications minister Vice-admiral Ken Terajima; Justice Minister Michiyo Iwamura, and Commerce and industry Minister Nobusuke Kishi. In back are foreign minister Shigenori Togo, left, and, mostly hidden by Kishi. Masayuki Tani, President of the cabinet information. The picture was airmailed from Tokyo before the war with Japan.
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Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo visits Manila, Philippines on May 6, 1943.
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This is an undated photo showing War Minister General Hideki Tojo, premier designate of Japan, during his visit at the Yasukuni Memorial Shrine in Tokyo to pay homage to the Spirits of the 15,013 war dead enshrined on Oct. 16, 1944.
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In this undated photo, former Japan's Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo is shown with medals outside of the Diet.
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Hideki Tojo, former Japanese prime minister, looks out the window of his house in Tokyo just a few seconds before shooting himself in front of reporters and photographers on Sept. 11, 1945.
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With a bullet wound just below the heart, Gen. Hideki Tojo, former Japanese premier who failed to lead Japan to victory, lies semi-conscious in a bed after he shot himself at his home in Tokyo, Sept. 11, 1945. Others are unidentified.
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Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, is seen in a Dec. 1947 photo.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister and military leader Hideki Tojo answers "not guilty" during war crimes trial in Tokyo, Nov. 1948.
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Hideki Tojo, former prime minister of Japan and war leader, stands in the dock before the International Military Tribunal in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 1948, to hear himself sentenced to death by hanging for his war crimes. Behind Tojo is Lieut. Col. Aubrey S. Kenworthy, who is responsible for the prisoners. Military police line the rear rail of the dock.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister and military leader Hideki Tojo, center, stands during the sentencing phase of the war crimes trial in Tokyo, on Nov. 12, 1948.
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