Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.

Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her…

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.