tojo
- n Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II; he was subsequently tried and executed as a war criminal (1884-1948)
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- History's Headlines: Lehigh Valley man gave blood so that war criminal might face justice
In 1945, ‘60s art guru Andy Warhol, then an art student, was 20 years away from fame, fortune and his most quoted quip, “in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” If he was glancing at the newspapers that September he might have gotten the germ of his idea from the account of an Allentown man who, by an accident of timing, ended up giving his blood to Hideki Tojo, the despised ...
Jan. 11, 2014 - WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey