Tojo hideki as a war leader

In his book The War Lords, A. J. P. Taylor deals with Japanese war leaders differently from those of other powers. Each chapter on those powers is given the title of their leader’s name, for example, ‘Mussolini’, ‘Hitler’, ‘Churchill’, ‘Stalin’ or ‘Roosevelt’. But the chapter on Japan is entitled ‘War Lords Anonymous’. As Taylor observes, ‘there was no Japanese war lord – no single figure who led Japan into war, who directed the war, who made the decisions, and so on’.1