Killing the Rising Sun
Importance of Hideki Tojo
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The wartime prime minister of Japan is portrayed as a monster. Given his overseeing of the wartime effort, and certain of his commands (including declaring POWs expendable and encouraging the Japanese military to kill them) certainly support that portrayal. Tojo is even compared to Hitler, and declared “psychopathic” over the course of the book.