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Faith in the Future. She saw Tojo for the last time in a Tokyo prison on Dec. 18, 1948, only four days before his execution for war crimes. As they spoke together, he dismissed the handcuffs on his wrists. "These things are of no importance because nothing can put a yoke on my mind, and my mind remains as free as ever," he told her. He kept repeating, she recalls, that Japan was a great nation and that everything would work all right for the country.
Tojo's own family are a case in point. His eldest surviving son, who is one of Japan's leading aeronautical engineers, drafted the twin-engine YS-11 transport, which has re-established Japan in the international aircraft business. The other surviving son is a Japanese air force colonel. Tojo's three daughters are all married and comfortable. His youngest daughter, Kimie, who studied international relations at the University of Michigan, is married to an American consulting engineer based in Tokyo.