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 He ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now U.S. files solve the mystery of his remains
 
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
June 15, 2021 3:51 AM PT
TOKYO —

Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s remains was one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in the nation he once led.

Now, a Japanese university professor has revealed declassified U.S. military documents that appear to hold the answer.

The documents show that the cremated ashes of Tojo, who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor, were scattered from a U.S. Army aircraft over the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles east of Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city, south of Tokyo.

It was a tension-filled, highly secretive mission, with American officials apparently taking extreme steps meant to keep Tojo’s remains, and those of six others executed with him, away from ultra-nationalists looking to glorify them as martyrs. The seven were hanged for war crimes just before Christmas in 1948, three years after Japan’s defeat.


https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-15/us-documents-war-criminal-japan-general-tojo-remains