Occupation: Military Officer Birth: December 30, 1884 Death: December 23, 1948
To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equa….
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, witho….
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result..
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 to. To seek….
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile..
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 thos….
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pr….
The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot..
From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to av….
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to….
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear th….
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we….
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanes….
With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was….
Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a ….
The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to….
Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the ….
Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, ….
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became….
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and….