It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity. - Yoshijirō Umezu

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It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.

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About Yoshijirō Umezu

Yoshijirō Umezu (January 4, 1882 – January 8, 1949) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. In July 1944, Umezu became the final Chief the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff and a member of the Supreme War Council. Along with War Minister Korechika Anami and Soemu Toyoda, Chief of Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff, Umezu opposed surrender in August 1945; After the war, he was tried as a war criminal at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Umezu died from rectal cancer in prison in 1949.

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Alternative Names: Yoshijiro Umezu Yoshijirou Umezu

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