Coming hot on the heels of last week’s episode, the villains can add another ugly monster to their number. Hideki Tojo was Japan’s fascist, genocidal answer to Himmler in Germany. Throughout his career, only Imperial Japanese priorities would matter, and if people got in the way, he treated them as an inconvenience or a resource. Ultimately, he faced justice in a way few war criminals did, but the blood he spilt in the twentieth century is a stain on Japan’s history.
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Reading list:
Warlord: Tojo Against the World – Edwin P. Hoyt
Tojo: The Last Banzai – Courtney Browne
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World – Simon Sebag Montefiore