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Hideki Tojo

1884 - 1948

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Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, Tōjō Hideki, pronounced [toːʑoː çideki] ; 30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944, during World War II. His leadership was marked by widespread state violence perpetrated in the name of Japanese nationalism, and after the war, he was convicted as a war criminal and executed. Tojo's legacy remains firmly intertwined with the Empire of Japan's wars of aggression and numerous atrocities. Born in Tokyo to a military family, Tojo was educated at the Japanese Military Academy and began his career in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in 1905. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideki Tojo has received more than 6,142,422 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Hideki Tojo is the 800th most popular politician (down from 625th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Japan (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Politician.

Hideki Tojo was the Prime Minister of Japan during World War II. He is most famous for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to the United States entering the war.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hideki Tojo ranks 800 out of 19,576. Before him are Tony Blair, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Eduard Bernstein, Walter Ulbricht, Tamar of Georgia, and Antiochus IV Epiphanes. After him are Gro Harlem Brundtland, Taejong of Joseon, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Al-Ma'mun, Igor of Kiev, and Andromache.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Hideki Tojo ranks 7. Before him are Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Amedeo Modigliani, Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, and İsmet İnönü. After him are Bronisław Malinowski, Casimir Funk, Édouard Daladier, Anton Drexler, Max Brod, and Theodor Heuss. Among people deceased in 1948, Hideki Tojo ranks 8. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein, Mileva Marić, Osamu Dazai, Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, and Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. After him are Walther von Brauchitsch, Edgar de Wahl, Antonin Artaud, Folke Bernadotte, Andrei Zhdanov, and Nikolai Berdyaev.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideki Tojo ranks 25 out of 6,245. Before him are Osamu Dazai (1909), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Shinzō Abe (1954), Koji Tanaka (1955), and Osamu Tezuka (1928). After him are Kanō Jigorō (1860), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Sadako Sasaki (1943), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), and Saigō Takamori (1828).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Hideki Tojo ranks 6. Before him are Hirohito (1901), Emperor Meiji (1852), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Emperor Jimmu (-711), and Shinzō Abe (1954). After him are Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Itō Hirobumi (1841), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), and Takeda Shingen (1521).

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