
General Tojo Part 4: The Atom Bombs
Real Dictators
Tj's Totalitarian Ability
By 1942, Japan was on the downward curve. The only way to rescue the war was the prime minister seated is to get even more stuck in. He opts to take hands-on control of the army despite having minimal battlefield experience. Tōjō may have succeeded in gathering power to himself, but his is a Pyrrhic victory. There's no way he can dock responsibility when things go wrong.
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