According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, an…

- Sadao Araki

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 f…

- Sadao Araki

In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, eq…

- Sadao Araki

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

- Sadao Araki

It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.

- Sadao Araki

The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anyth…

- Sadao Araki

Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, b…

- Sadao Araki

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

- Sadao Araki

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.

- Sadao Araki