Shunroku Hata

“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.”