"If you want to maintain the superiority of your state at the present time, you must quickly enter into a coalition wi…"

"As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in…"

"I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly."

"Japan cannot remain indifferent to anyone's taking action, under any pretext, which is prejudicial to the maintenance…"

"Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied terr…"

"I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts …"

"A "Naturfolk" learns by intimate contact with nature that there is a healing power in the flower and the grass, in th…"

"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-u…"

"A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot. Another compares learning to an ill-smelling vegetable…"

"Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." "To rush into the thick of battle and to be slai…"