Shunroku Hata Quotes

• We are against dependence on a change in the international situation for the solution of the China Incident.
• I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.
• Asia, in cooperation with Europe, is about to take simultaneous action towards realization of a New World Order.
• The kind of slaughter and violence that we have seen in this war, was in my experience very rare during the Russo-Japanese war. In modern war, the whole people are mobilized. Hence the majority of the troops correspond to the people as a whole. An army in which scandals and atrocities occur in great numbers, must surely reflect a decline in public morality?
• As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.
• I will take responsibility for all operations.
• We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.

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