Prime Time for Japan’s War Minister
REVIEW: ‘Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II General’ by Peter Mauch General Hideki Tojo served as Japan’s war minister (administrative leader of the Imperial Army) from July 18, 1940, to July 18, 1944, and then concurrently as prime minister from October 17, 1941, to July 18, 1944. As such,