"There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do."
— Iwane Matsui

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in "Tennou no guntai to Nankin jiken" by Yoshida Hiroshi - 1998 Aoki shoten, page 71.