"Japan will oppose any attempt at international control of Manchuria. It does not mean that we defy you, because Manch…"

"We look into the gloom of the future and can see no certain gleam of light before us."

"Japan has been and will always be the mainstay of peace, order and progress in the Far East."

"Would the American people agree to such control of the Panama Canal Zone; would the British permit it over Egypt? The…"

"[T]he Japanese government is obliged to feel that hey have now reached the limit of their endeavors to co-operate wit…"

"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…"

"Pilgrimages to all sorts of uncanny places—to execution grounds, to graveyards, to houses reputed to be haunted, were…"