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Facts

Born December 30, 1884 • Tokyo • Japan
Died December 23, 1948 (aged 63) • Tokyo • Japan
Title / Office prime minister (1941-1944), Japan
Role In Battle of Iwo Jima • Pearl Harbor attack • World War II • Pacific War

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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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Yamamoto Isoroku.
Yamamoto Isoroku
Japanese naval officer
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
United States general
Nagano Osami
Nagano Osami
Japanese admiral
Araki Sadao.
Araki Sadao
Japanese general and statesman
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Homma Masaharu
Japanese general
Koiso Kuniaki
Koiso Kuniaki
prime minister of Japan
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Genda Minoru
Japanese naval officer
Ugaki Kazushige.
Ugaki Kazushige
Japanese statesman
Yamashita Tomoyuki
Yamashita Tomoyuki
Japanese general
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Higashikuni Naruhiko
prime minister of Japan
Konoe Fumimaro.
Konoe Fumimaro
prime minister of Japan
Japanese emperor Hirohito, 1982
Hirohito
emperor of Japan
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Ōkawa Shūmei
Japanese political theorist and writer
Shigemitsu Mamoru
Shigemitsu Mamoru
Japanese diplomat
Suzuki Kantarō
Danshaku Suzuki Kantarō
prime minister of Japan
Wang Ching-wei, 1941
Wang Ching-wei
Chinese revolutionary
Iva Toguri d'Aquino, known as Tokyo Rose, sits with her hands folded in her lap, wearing a collared shirt and vest, looking toward the camera.
Iva Toguri D’Aquino
American broadcaster
George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall
American military officer and government official
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
president of United States
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German political leader and convicted war criminal

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