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Tōjō Hideki Map showing the maximum territorial expansion of Japanese military forces in 1942 during World War II. The area of expansion is marked with red diagonal lines, covering large portions of East and Southeast Asia, the western Pacific, and islands reaching toward India and Australia. Japan's postwar territory is shaded in solid red. Key locations such as Pearl Harbor, Midway, Guam, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies are labeled, with country boundaries depicted as they were in 1942. Tōjō Hideki
Vintage map of Japan and Indo China region.
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Article History

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Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Tojo Hideki, the Japanese wartime leader we know little about. Jun 10, 2026
Add new Web site: Harvard University Press - Rethinking Hideki Tojo: a Landmark New Biography of Japan’s Wartime Leader. Apr 16, 2026
Anniversary information added. Dec 26, 2025
Anniversary information added. Dec 19, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Potters Wax Museum - Tojo Hideki. Aug 21, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 11, 2024
Add new Web site: The Asia-Pacific Journal - Family Ties: The Tojo Legacy. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: World War II Database - Biography of Hideki Tojo. Sep 02, 2022
Article restructured. Jan 15, 2021
Media added. Jan 07, 2020
Add new Web site: History Today - Tojo Hideki Executed. Nov 07, 2019
Add new Web site: National Diet Library, Japan - Biography of Hideki Tojo. Jan 30, 2019
Corrected display issue. Apr 27, 2018
Article revised and updated. Feb 07, 2014
Media added. Feb 07, 2014
Added new Web site: History Learning Site - Hideki Tojo. Feb 16, 2009
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Hideki Tojo. Feb 16, 2009
Added new Web site: Historycentral.com - Biography of Hideki Tojo. Feb 16, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Tojo Hideki. Feb 16, 2009
Added new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Hideki Tojo. Feb 16, 2009
Article revised. Mar 16, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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