Ignorance Quote by Hideki Tojo

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear…

— Hideki Tojo

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to…

— Hideki Tojo

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we…

— Hideki Tojo

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence…

— Hideki Tojo

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction…

— Hideki Tojo

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…

— Hideki Tojo

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations…

— Hideki Tojo

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

— Hideki Tojo

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance…

— Hideki Tojo

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…

— Hideki Tojo

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

— Hideki Tojo

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about…

— Hideki Tojo