Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo,(1884-1948) seen here after a failed suicide attempt. Following the surrender of the Japanese Empire on September 2, 1945, the commander of the Allied armies ordered the arrest of Japanese war criminals. One of them was General Tojo. When arrested, he made ​​an unsuccessful attempt to take his life by shooting himself in the chest, but the wound was not fatal. Once recovered, he was sent to Sugamo prison.

Failed suicide attempt

Japanese Navy Postcard from 1941 showing a Type 93 long lance torpedo,  It was the most advanced naval torpedo in the world at the time.


Type 93 torpedo

A Japanese bomber, its diving flaps down, was photographed by a U.S. Navy photographer as the plane approached its Pearl Harbor objective on December 7