Video: 'Tojo And Aides Sentenced For War (1948)'

(Friday, November 12, 1948) — Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, responsible for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, which initiated war between Japan and the United States, and six Japanese military and government officials were sentenced to death today in Tokyo by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Tojo was found guilty of, among other things, waging wars of aggression, war in violation of international law, unprovoked or aggressive war against various nations and ordering, authorizing, and permitting inhumane treatment of prisoners of war.

Another 16 co-defendants were sentenced to life in prison and two more were given prison sentences ranging from 7-10 years.