Tojo had taken too much of a liking to the rum and other beverages.
Wilpers ordered a Japanese doctor at gunpoint to treat Tojo until an American doctor arrived.
He would have been alert to the evil empires of Hitler and Tojo.
Tojo survived, was convicted of war crimes and was executed in December 1948.
But Tojo had made a lasting impression during his short stay and was given a funeral, with full military honours.
Local businessman Thomas Tupper has grown up with the story of Tojo and how he came to be in Clonakilty.
"The efforts of local doctors, chemists, and vets failed to save the monkey and Tojo died of pneumonia, " said Mr Tupper.
Debt soared to well above 100% of GDP during the war, but few thought defeating Hitler and Tojo was a bad investment.
Tojo dropped in to the County Cork seaside town of Clonakilty during the Second World War when a US bomber had to land nearby.
He didn't give media interviews until 2010, when Pentagon officials held a ceremony to award him the Bronze Star he earned for arresting Tojo.
"It was a job we were told to do and we did it, " Wilpers told the AP in September 2010, just before the 65th anniversary of Tojo's capture.
Douglas MacArthur dispatched to arrest Tojo, sought by the Allied powers so he could be tried for atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the war, including the Bataan Death March.
The upstate New York native was part of a five-man unit ordered to arrest Tojo at his home in a Tokyo suburb on Sept. 11, 1945, nine days after Japan's surrender ended the war.
According to reporters and photographers who followed the unit into the room and Wilper's own account given to the AP three years ago, Tojo's house staff and a Japanese doctor were reluctant to help the wounded man until Wilpers pointed his gun at the physician and ordered him to start treatment.
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