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Tojo

rare dated slang

noun

1.

Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II; he was subsequently tried and executed as a war criminal (1884-1948)

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After General Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister during World War II.

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