Crisis Quote by Hideki Tojo

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's…

— Paul Nitze

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

— Townsend Harris

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…

— Hideki Tojo

I do not want to speak about our cooperation with Japan now. Thank God, we have had no such problems there. Nor would we…

— Vladimir Putin

We should continue to explain clearly that Japan's past as a peace loving nation would not change in the future.

— Fumio Kishida

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…

— Hideki Tojo

Notably, it was only possible [ negotiating on the Tarabarov Island], and this is very important, due to the high level of trust Russia…

— Vladimir Putin

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death.…

— Anonymous

Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the…

— Sadako Ogata

I will not offer my thoughts on what Japan could and should have done, this is none of my business, it is the business…

— Vladimir Putin

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat…

— Hideki Tojo

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus…

— Joichi Ito