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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 general and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944 during the Second World War. His leadership was marked by widespread state violence and mass killings perpetrated in the name of Japanese nationalism. Born in Tokyo to a military family, Tojo was educated at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and began his career in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in 1905. He served as a military attaché in Germany from 1919 to 1922, and rose through the ranks to become a general in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hideki Tojo is the 516th most popular politician (up from 800th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Japan (up from 25th in 2019) and the 4th 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, Hideki Tojo ranks 516 out of 19,576. Before him are Eduard Shevardnadze, Omar al-Bashir, Jawaharlal Nehru, Józef Piłsudski, Kangxi Emperor, and Djoser. After him are Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Juan Perón, Henry the Fowler, Florianus, Daniel D. Tompkins, and Decius.

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Among people born in 1884, Hideki Tojo ranks 4. Before him are Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Amedeo Modigliani. After him are Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, Bronisław Malinowski, Édouard Daladier, Peter Debye, Max Brod, and Walther von Reichenau. Among people deceased in 1948, Hideki Tojo ranks 6. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Edgar de Wahl, Sergei Eisenstein, and D. W. Griffith. After him are Mileva Marić, Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, Osamu Dazai, Edith Roosevelt, and Walther von Brauchitsch.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideki Tojo ranks 16 out of 6,245. Before him are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), and Yasunari Kawabata (1899). After him are Emperor Taishō (1879), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Shinzō Abe (1954), Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), Hiroo Onoda (1922), and Yoko Ono (1933).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Hideki Tojo ranks 4. Before him are Hirohito (1901), Emperor Meiji (1852), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536). After him are Shinzō Abe (1954), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Itō Hirobumi (1841), and Sasaki Kojirō (1583).

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