After the defeat, Tojo Hideki did not think about committing suicide and martyring his country.
After all, once a person in a high position like him becomes a prisoner and is interrogated and teased, his life will be worse than death.
Moreover, because Tojo offended the Americans so severely, he was inevitably killed in the end.
Might as well give yourself a good time.
Therefore, when Hideki Tojo learned that he was as famous as Hitler and Mussolini as Japan's number one war criminal and the first of Japan's Class A war criminals, he shot himself.
The location of the shot was a circle drawn by his personal doctor on the heart.
However, Tojo Hideki did not get what he wanted.
According to later records, this guy had a deformed heart, commonly known as a crooked heart.
Moreover, Tojo Hideki is still a left-hander who has not touched a gun for many years.
This shot did not hit the heart.
It just penetrated the lung lobe.
On December 26, 1947, the trial of Tojo Hideki by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began.
Hideki Tojo entered the venue and received the highest attendance rate in the auditorium and press box of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Yu Sheng held a huge camera in the press box and kept recording.
Tojo Hideki's hairless head shone brightly under the spotlight.
The lawyer from the Japanese legal team spoke first.
After the last flour explosion, most of the Japanese lawyer team was killed or injured.
Including Ichiro Kiyose and many American lawyers who worked hard for Japanese money, they all unfortunately died in the line of duty.
The lawyer who appeared on the stage had no name in the original history.
I don’t bother to remember it for the rest of my life.
But I heard this lawyer say: "First of all, on behalf of my client, Mr.
Hideki Tojo, I hereby declare that my client, Mr.
Hideki Tojo, will not invite any other witnesses to testify in court except for himself to testify for himself.
In addition, he will not present any evidence."
"Next, my client will read his statement."
Tojo Hideki made this move.
It is also a helpless move.
He knows that he has offended the Chinese and Americans miserably.
If he makes up some specious evidence, it is likely to be used by the well-prepared Chinese and American prosecutorial teams.
As the saying goes, too much talk leads to mistakes.
Seishiro Itagaki, who had no brains in compiling evidence, is still in the pit.
The reputation of the pig teammates has spread around the world with media reports.
Even Kenji Doihara was tricked by him.
Moreover, as the Prime Minister who is inferior to one person but superior to ten thousand people, there are many things that only Tojo Hideki knows.
As long as the prosecutors don't mention it, Tojo can pretend not to know.
Even if it is proposed by the prosecutor.
Tojo Hideki can also push it cleanly.
After the lawyer finished speaking, Tojo began to read out the confession he had written.
Tojo's confession was no different from the confessions of other Class-A war criminals.
They were all vague and shirk responsibility.
And there was no admission of guilt.
At the end of the confession, Tojo Hideki said: "Finally, I'm afraid this is the last opportunity allowed by the rules of this court.
I repeat here that the national policy of the Japanese Empire, and even the legal occupation of territories outside Japan at that time, The policy pursued by the officials in their respective positions is neither aggression nor exploitation."
"We only acted in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the constitution and law, but even so, we still encountered harsh realistic situations.
We bet on the fate of the country.
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But we lost.
I have always maintained that this war was a war of self-defense and did not violate today's war recognized by the world as an international law.”
"Regarding the responsibility for the defeat, it was the responsibility of the Prime Minister at the time, me.
In this sense, I intend to take it upon myself.
The confessor, Tojo Hideki.
On December 10, 2017, Showa 22, Japan 9th in Tokyo.”
Like many Japanese war criminals, Tojo Hideki simply did not believe that Japan's overseas expansion was a mistake.
However, their speculation on the fate of the country did not succeed.
Even though Joseph Jinan repeatedly questioned him, Tojo Hideki remained stubborn.
And there is always reason to say that this is Japan's war of self-defense.
Tojo Hideki knew that even if he changed his plea and confessed, the Americans and Chinese would not let him go.
He would be considered a coward, so it would be better to fight to the end and look good.
In response to Tojo Hideki's confession, Joseph Jinan asked: "So, according to your logic, on the one hand, you are conducting so-called peaceful negotiations between China and Japan, and on the other hand, you are occupying Chinese territory with powerful troops.
This Isn’t it contradictory?”
Tojo Hideki replied very calmly: "There is no contradiction."
Joseph Jinan asked: "Then have you considered that invading Manchuria will arouse anti-Japanese sentiment in China?"
Tojo Hideki said with a smile: "China has had its antipathy towards Japan for a long time."
Hearing this, the Japanese in the audience burst into laughter and exclaimed in admiration.
After all, this is what most Japanese people have received since childhood.
And Joseph Jinan, when facing other Class A war criminals, can still use his aggressive attitude to gain the upper hand in momentum.
However, when he met Tojo Hideki, who once controlled the power of a country, Joseph Jinan's aggressive momentum was no longer so effective.
Moreover, Joseph Jinan's historical research on China and Japan is obviously not as in-depth as Hideki Tojo's.
Therefore, when I heard Tojo Hideki's words, I was slightly agitated.
Tojo Hideki continued: "However, Japan definitely did not invade Manchuria."
As soon as this statement came out, the Japanese were in an uproar.
Only Yu Sheng yelled: "Bullshit".
These two words were spat out with anger, which shocked the court.
Everyone looked sideways.
Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, President Wilbur banged the hammer and said: "Quiet, quiet."
Joseph Jinan came to his senses and no longer struggled with Tojo Hideki on this issue.
Directly using the trump card of data, he asked Tojo Hideki: "So, how many Chinese people were killed by the Japanese army?"
"have no idea" Joseph Jinan presented the evidence that he had prepared: "This is what was announced by the Ministry of War of Japan.
According to the annual signature, from July 1937 to June 1941, the Japanese military 2,015,000 Chinese people were killed and more than 2 million Chinese people were killed by regulations.
Have you ever thought that this would arouse the anger of the Chinese people?
Please answer."
The Japanese killed more than two million people in China.
According to later statistics, this number is about 35 million, which is relatively credible.
Killings by Japanese frontline troops are sometimes not reported.
If you kill, you will kill.
During the war, the Japanese would not keep detailed statistics at all.
What the Japanese care about is how much land they occupy in China.
Not how many Chinese people died.
Tojo Hideki said: "I feel deeply unfortunate about this."
Joseph Jinan added: "Moreover, many of the Chinese people who were killed were innocent people.
Why did the Japanese inflict such cruel behavior on innocent people?"
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Although Tojo Hideki can only fight against the wind.
But he was obviously much thicker-skinned than Joseph Jinan and other Class A war criminals.
He replied: "The so-called ordinary people have nothing to do with the war.
China and Japan are the same.
And as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese regime, he actually commands the people Fighting against Japan and insulting Japan to the point of causing massacre is the fault of the Chinese commander and has nothing to do with us."
Tojo Hideki's gangster logic of only allowing me to hit you and not allowing you to hit me caused an uproar in the entire audience, including the Japanese.
Joseph Jinan then asked: "So, you insist not to withdraw troops from China.
And you will continue to expand the scale of the war, yes or no?"
Tojo Hideki was very unhappy.
He was inferior to one person and more than ten thousand people in Japan.
Even the emperor did not dare to ask such questions: "I don't like to answer yes or no."
But at this time, he couldn't help it.
Joseph Jinan said: "This is in court.
It doesn't allow you to like it or not.
You have to answer, yes or no."
The Japanese legal team finally found an opportunity to take action.
Said: "I protest that the prosecutor cannot ask questions like this."
Wilbur said calmly: "The protest witness Tojo Hideki must answer the prosecutor's question, yes or no."
Joseph Jinan, with the help of Wilbur, also urged: "Answer me.
Yes or no" Hideki Tojo insisted: "No" Joseph Jinan finally caught the chance to win back the game and asked back: "Not so, since October 1941.
After you were ordered to form a cabinet, did Japan withdraw its troops from China?"
Tojo replied: "No, but that is" Joseph Jinan interrupted: "You have already answered the question you just asked.
I don't need your explanation."
Tojo Hideki's face darkened, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
Before he was defeated, no one had dared to be so rude to him.
Yu Sheng looked at Tojo Hideki's mouth and knew that this guy wanted to curse: "Baga" So he quietly made a gesture to everyone around him.
Everyone still cheered loudly to Joseph Jinan's question.
Although the International Military Tribunal for the Far East has relatively strict control over the press box and auditorium, a large number of scalped tickets will still flow out on the black market in Tokyo, Japan.
When Tojo Hideki appeared, the price of a scalper ticket had already reached a thousand dollars.
Enough for an average Japanese family to live for several months.
And in the rest of my life, I was so wealthy that I bought them all without a single one left.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East has a bunch of idlers.
And the task given to these subordinates for the rest of my life is to heckle them at the right time.
Although this was a bit petty, when I performed on stage with my friends in later generations, I realized how powerful applause and booing can be.
Regardless of whether this method is petty or not, seeing Tojo Hideki's old face getting darker and darker with anger from the applause of the whole house.
I will feel at ease for the rest of my life, which is worth the price of admission.
However, Tojo Hideki's unrepentance is no longer a matter of being thick-skinned.
But from the bottom of my heart, I don’t believe in morality.
The so-called morality and peace are just an excuse for Hideki Tojo.
What he truly believes in is the law of the jungle, which is extremely animalistic.
Little do they know that the reason why humans are better than wild beasts is that they partially get rid of the animal nature of the weak and the strong through their inner moral constraints.
Therefore, the old, young, women and children can be preserved.
In this way, no matter what kind of competition there is within human beings, it will not really hurt the fundamentals.
Just like many companies in later generations that emphasize wolf nature, most of them will not last long.
These so-called wolf-like companies often lack humanity the most.
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Deliberately ignoring the difference between humans and beasts, it would be strange not to be rejected by others, even by one's own people.
However, Tojo's stubbornness was not just directed at the Chinese.
When the cross-examination involved countries such as Britain, France, and the United States, Tojo was still stubborn.
After answering questions related to China, Joseph Jinan asked: "Do you admit to committing war crimes?"
Tojo Hideki still said: "This war is really Japan's war of self-defense."
"Since it was self-defense, why did Japan wantonly violate the nine-nation Washington Convention on the Limitation of Naval Armaments?"
“Let’s start with an analogy: Give a ten-year-old child a set of clothes that fit him well, but when he turns eighteen, the clothes fall apart.”
"But it's possible to mend that dress and make it fit, don't you think?"
"But it grows so fast that the child's parents don't have time to mend it."
"The Bataan Death March in 1942 forced prisoners of war to walk long distances in scorching heat.
A large number of exhausted prisoners were beaten, assassinated and shot during the march.
What are your responsibilities for this?
responsibility" "As is customary in Japan, commanders carrying out specific missions are not bound by specific orders from Tokyo and enjoy considerable independence."
"As far as we know, with the approval of the highest Japanese authorities, prisoners of war were forced to build the Thailand-Burma Railway with their hands under harsh conditions.
The bones of thousands of prisoners of war were left on both sides of the roadbed.
Is this true?"
"We did not expect to do such a thing.
According to the character of the Japanese, they believe that such crimes will not be tolerated in heaven or on earth."
The Bataan Death March was just a detail used to leverage Hideki Tojo into admitting his war crimes.
However, Joseph Jinan did not expect that Tojo Hideki's face was much thicker than expected.
A word of "didn't expect that" completely shirks the responsibility.
Therefore, we can only turn to the next detail: "You said in your confession that Japan launched war against the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands because they issued an asset freezing order on July 26, 1941, right?
" When Japan failed to advance northward to the Soviet Union and the Japanese Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Nomonkan, Japan prepared to move south and occupy various parts of Southeast Asia.
However, Southeast Asia has been the territory of Europeans and Americans since the Great Navigation.
Today, even the Philippines in later generations is the younger brother of the Americans.
When the Japanese went south to plunder, they naturally violated the interests of European and American countries.
In order to contain the Japanese and retaliate, countries such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, led by the United States, issued asset freezing orders against Japan, freezing Japanese assets in these countries.
Moreover, an embargo of certain strategic materials was also implemented.
As soon as this order was issued, the Japanese suffered heavy losses
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