General Tojo Part 4: The Atom Bombs

Real Dictators

NOISER

History, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The walls close in on Hideki Tojo. The General turned Prime Minister takes hands-on control of the military, with catastrophic consequences. Emperor Hirohito pulls the plug. With Tojo forced out of office and on the run from the Allies in Tokyo, the end of World War Two arrives. But its final chapter will change the world forever more. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.9	They're putting together a kind of home guard of high school students armed with sharpened
0:38.2	bamboo spears, and they're expected to take on the Americans and British when they land
0:43.4	on the beaches literally so you can imagine the blood bath that the Allies would have faced.
0:48.7	The set around the Emperor finally go to the Emperor and say you've just got to withdraw
0:53.5	support from this man he's getting too powerful.
0:56.5	He did not regret the war, he did not regret Pearl Harbor and he believed that he'd acted
1:01.6	honorably.
1:02.6	Extreme nationalism, extreme racism ends up giving the permission to act in a bestial, dehumanized
1:09.7	way.
1:15.4	That's late 1942 and generally dequeed Tojo, Japan's wartime prime minister is right up
1:22.2	against it.
1:25.2	Since losing the battle of Midway at the hands of the US Navy, the momentum of World War
1:29.5	2 has shifted decisively.
1:32.4	America is closing in on Japanese territory, the prospect of defeat looms, but Tojo is
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