2. Hideki Tōjō, Japan
Total Death Toll: 3,990,000
We are continuing our list of most evil elected presidents who killed the most people with Tōjō who was elected Prime Minister of Japan in the 1942 general election, which was one-party, extremely dubious, and untrustworthy, but an election nonetheless, without preceding application of the Martial Law. Prior the election, he was Minister of War, a charge he preserved during his presidency, so the death toll listed is actually the result of a lifetime of killing, according to Rummel.
This fervent Nationalist is responsible for the infamously well-known Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which was the trigger to the USA’s official involvement in WW2 and claimed the life of 2,403 Americans (which is really not as many as one would have thought looking at Tōjō’s total death toll). He committed several other massacres, too many to list, and also ought to be blamed for Japan’s total death toll during WW2, which rounded 1.9 million. In 1945, once the War was over and Japan was monumentally biting the dust, Tōjō was captured by USA military forces, and was sentenced to Death by hanging.
