Koki Hirota Quotes

• Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.

  Koki Hirota

  Development, Territory, Investment

  "British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.

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• I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.

  Koki Hirota

  Fashion, Army, Blood

  "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.

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• As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.

  Koki Hirota

  Messages, Good Health, Please

  "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki". Book by Saburō Shiroyama, p. 296, 1977.

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• I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.

  Koki Hirota

  Difficult Times, Difficult, Happens

  "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by John Toland, p.49, 2003.

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