Sadao Araki Quotes

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

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

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

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

The sword is our steel Bible!

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.

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

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, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

Setbacks there and at home will only increase our strength...

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 natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.

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

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, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

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. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.