To·jo (t??j??), Hideki Originally Tojo Eiki. 1884-1948. Japanese army officer and prime minister of Japan (1941-1944) who ruled as a dictator during World War II and was executed as a war criminal.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.Tojo (?t??d???) n (Biography) Hideki (?hi?d??ki?). 1885?1948, Japanese soldier and statesman; minister of war (1940?41) and premier (1941?44); hanged as a war criminalCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014To?jo (?to? d?o?) n. Hideki, 1884?1948, Japanese general and politician. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.