World War II

MYSTERY OF TOJO’S REMAINS SOLVED

HIDETOSHI TOJO always thought that his notorious great-grandfather’s remains—some of them, anyway—were buried in the family plot in the Ikebukuro district of northwestern Tokyo.

But their real location remained unknown until June, when a Japanese researcher revealed that the

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