"I stood vacantly amid the ruins of Tokyo, after discarding my officer's short sword and removing the epaulettes of my uniform. As I looked around me, I swore to resurrect my homeland from the ashes of defeat."
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On his return to Tokyo in 1945, quoted in Robert Harvey, The Undefeated: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Greater Japan (Macmillan, 1994), p. 362
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Yasuhiro Nakasone
Yasuhiro Nakasone äøę½ę ¹ åŗ·å¼ (May 27, 1918 ā November 29, 2019) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 1982 to 1987. He was a member of the House of Representatives for more than 50 years. He was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister. He was the oldest living former state leader at the time of h
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