Kōki Hirota

was a Japanese diplomat and politician who was the prime minister of Japan from 1936 to 1937. He was executed by hanging for war crimes committed during the Second Sino-Japanese War at the Tokyo Trials.Maga, Timothy P. Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials. University of Kentucky (2001). Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. Modern Library; Reprint edition (2003). 

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