General Hideki Tojo, the “last shogun” – outside Japan, and among many native worshippers of the glorious past, he still retains his World War II image as a strutting Asiatic Hitler. Yet his reign as a virtual dictator and his fall from power did not seriously affect the course of Japanese militarism. Here is a detailed biography of the man who rose to fame during the Manchurian and China campaigns that set the stage for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
