Among those are 14 convicted Class A war criminals, including Tojo and the six others. What is Japan's Yasukuni Shrine? A WW2 hero and a reckoning with Japan's past Politicians on the right see it ...

In 1941, the German army's drive to take Moscow was halted on the city's outskirts in World War II. In 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, construction began on the first permanent European settlement in New England. It was one week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in ...

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 1972, a series of earthquakes killed about ...