More interesting info:

After Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945, U. S. General Douglas MacArthur issued orders for the arrest of the first forty alleged war criminals, including Tojo.

It was September 8, 1945, 4:17 pm. Major Paul Kraus and a group of military police burst in, followed by George Jones, a reporter for the New York Times. Tojo had shot himself in the chest with a .32-caliber Colt, but despite shooting directly through the mark, the bullet missed his heart ( another story says he shot himself in the stomach ). At 4:29, now disarmed and with blood spreading on his shirt, Tojo began to talk, and two Japanese reporters recorded his words. "I am very sorry it is taking me so long to die," he murmured.

Tojo was saved by an American physician who gave him a blood transfusion.

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