The most serious menace to Japan comes from the Soviet Union. Numerous European countries will eventually embrace Communism. So will China and India … - Toshio Shiratori

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The most serious menace to Japan comes from the Soviet Union. Numerous European countries will eventually embrace Communism. So will China and India if we just watch them with folded arms.

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About Toshio Shiratori

Toshio Shiratori (June 8, 1887 – June 3, 1949) was the Japanese ambassador to Italy from 1938 to 1940 and advisor to the Japanese foreign minister in 1940. He was an advocate of military expansionism, counseling an alliance between Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan to facilitate world domination. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East found him guilty of war crimes. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and he died in prison. He was one of the fourteen Class-A war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine in 1978.

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