The remains of Japan's World War Two prime minister were scattered over the Pacific Ocean after his execution, US documents have revealed. Officials were concerned supporters of Hideki Tojo - one ...

File Photo courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library In 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of the Allied War Crimes Commission.

In 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death by hanging. Tojo survived a suicide attempt three years earlier ...