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Others said Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime prime minister who was later convicted of war crimes and hanged, would have been a better choice than Hirohito for the video.

Everyone pulled together and sacrificed, committed to a common goal: victory over Hitler and Tojo.

Tojo and the others were secretly elevated to the status of gods at the shrine in a ceremony that year, news of which sparked a domestic firestorm when it became public.

The disposal was intended to prevent Japanese nationalists from gaining access to the remains and treating Tojo — who was convicted of war crimes by an international military tribunal — as a martyr.

Officials were concerned supporters of Hideki Tojo - one of the men behind the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 - would try to find his body and treat him as a martyr.