Diary reveals Japan war leader wanted to keep fighting

JAPAN’S fanatical Second World War leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep on fighting even after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documents released show.

Tojo, hanged as a war criminal after the country surrendered, accused opponents of being “frightened”.

Excerpts from around 20 diary pages written by Tojo in the final days of the war and held by the National Archives of Japan were published for the first time.