On this day 77 years ago, on December 23, 1948 (November 23, 1948 in the lunar calendar), Hideki Tojo, whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people, was hanged. Hideki Tojo (December 30, 1884 - December 23, 1948) In the early morning of December 23, 1948, at the execution ground in Tokyo, Japan, there were six corpses hanging from the gallows. They were six Class A war criminals from Japan in World War II. One of them was Hideki Tojo, a giant of Japanese fascist warlords, one of the main war criminals in the war of aggression against China and the Pacific War, and the most vicious executioner of the Chinese people. Hideki Tojo was born on December 30, 1884, in a military family in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Hideyo Tojo, was the first graduate of the Japanese Army University. He served as a base camp staff officer during the Sino-Japanese War that invaded China and made "great contributions" to the foreign expansion of Japanese militarism. Living in such a family, Hideki Tojo was influenced by the spirit of militarism and Bushido from an early age. At the age of 16, Hideki Tojo entered the local kindergarten school of the Tokyo Army and received military training systematically. He later studied at the Army Central Junior School and the Army Non-commissioned Officer School. After graduating in 1905, when he was only 21 years old, he was awarded the rank of second lieutenant in the army and invaded northeastern China to participate in the Russo-Japanese War. After the war, he was promoted to first lieutenant and entered the army university to study. He was loyal to the emperor, autocratic, and full of Bushido spirit, known as "Razor Tojo". In 1937, the Japanese imperialists launched a full-scale war of aggression against China. As the chief of staff of the Japanese invading Kwantung Army, Hideki Tojo commanded the invading army to occupy Chengde, Zhangjiakou, Datong and other places one after another, burning, raping and looting everywhere, thousands of villages were burned down, and thousands of Chinese people were killed. Tojo's atrocities in China made him more appreciated by Japanese warlords. In December 1938, he was promoted to the rank of Director of Army Aviation, which oversees the Japanese Army Air Forces. With the expansion of the Japanese imperialist war of aggression, Tojo Hideki's status also continued to improve. In 1941, the Koji Cabinet fell, and Tojo Hideki became Prime Minister. In order to expand the war of aggression against China and the war in the Far East, he appointed the "Greater East Asia Province" in the cabinet to carry out the so-called "Greater East Asia Jihad", madly invading outward, and developing Japanese militarism to the peak. At the end of World War II, Japan surrendered unconditionally, and this invincible murderer was finally imprisoned on the trial stage of history, ending his life of evil.