Shunroku Hata Quotes

• We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.

  Shunroku Hata

  Opportunity, Missing, Should

  "Enter Japan", Time Magazine, July 8, 1940.

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• As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.

  Shunroku Hata

  Army, Ice, Chinese

  "Objective: Limited", Time Magazine, December 20, 1943.

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• I will take responsibility for all operations.

  Shunroku Hata

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Operations

  The Nebraska State Journal, December 4, 1945.

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• Asia, in cooperation with Europe, is about to take simultaneous action towards realization of a New World Order.

  Shunroku Hata

  Order, Europe, Realization

  "The Secret History of the War". Book by Waverley Root, p. 342, 1945.

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• I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.

  Shunroku Hata

  People, Records, Facts

  "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939". Book by Alvin D. Coox, p. 1184, 1990.

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