General Tojo Hideki Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

General Tojo Hideki



Japan's evil warlord
Waging war building an empire
Thinking Japan invincible
Invaded China with bloody slaughter
Murder, rape, torture
Cities, towns, reduced to rubble
Citizens massacred.

Attacked America at Pearl Harbour
British in Singapore
Murder, rape, torture
Men, women and children
Allied prisoners treated with greatest cruelty
Thousands dying in prison camps
Building notorious Burma railway.

General Tojo Hedeki
Ruthless enemy
Trained Japan's children to kill
Boys to be soldiers dedicated to bushido
Fighting, building madman's empire
Millions in Far East subjected to tranny
Forced to obey land of rising sun.

Tojo refused to surrender
Until atomic bombs
Destroyed Hiroshima and Nakaski
Terrifying Japan's government
Into accepting allies demands
Surrender without condition
Allied armies garrisoned in Japan.

Saturday, August 29, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: world war ii
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Wartime leader of Japan's government, General Tôjô Hideki, hanged for war crimes 1948. Evil puppet master who madeEmperor Hirohito do as he wanted, waging war to make an empire.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Deluke Muwanigwa 29 August 2020

Great poem. War is bad news. The lowest point of the human collective psyche.

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