The Tojo family had kept silent for a long time. But not any longer.
Born in 1939, Yuko Tojo, granddaughter of wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo, is now speaking out against the postwar Allied tribunal that convicted him as a Class-A war criminal and sentenced him to hang.
She recalled that before his execution in 1948, Hideki Tojo had urged his family to never argue back or make excuses even if others treat them badly because of the responsibility he bore for the war Japan entered into in the 1930s and lost in 1945.