Hideki Tojo Quotes

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• Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only…
• Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is…
• It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
• Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long…
• The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents…
• When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that…
• To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all…
• From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to…
• Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate,…
• At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States
• I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those…
• The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize,…
• On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was…
• Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to.…
• Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes,…
• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war…
• With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to…
• However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would…
• Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of…
• Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of…

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