He Tried To Commit Suicide Before Being Arrested

US General Douglas MacArthur ordered the detention of forty alleged war criminals, including Tojo, following Japan's surrender. Tojo was now in his home, surrounded by American soldiers, and had resigned as prime minister. He shot himself in the chest to avoid being apprehended, but he missed his heart; as a result, he was saved and transported to prison.

Tojo was transferred to Sugamo Prison after he had healed from his wounds. While there, an American dentist made him a new set of dentures that had the words “Remember Pearl Harbor” covertly drilled into them in Morse code. Three months later, the dentist crushed the message away.

Because of this, the US Army later sent medical staff to arrest further Japanese war criminals, who were anticipated to attempt suicide as a final gesture of honor.

When Tojo was tried for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, he was found guilty of waging wars of aggression, wars against other countries without justification or provocation, ordering, authorizing, and permitting the inhumane treatment of prisoners of war, among other crimes. In December 1948, he was hanged after receiving a death sentence.