"Japan would take action in a decisive form if she had the feeling that otherwise she would lose a chance which could only occur once in a thousand years."
— Yōsuke Matsuoka

January 1, 1970

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In conversation with Adolf Hitler, Berlin, March 27, 1941. Reported in Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 3: The Grand Alliance (1948), p. 187