Quotes by Hideki Tojo - Page 1

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Death
Apology
Determined
Am
Offer
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At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
War
England
United States
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At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
December
Decided
England
Conference
Imperial
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The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
War
Feet
Soldier
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It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
War
Nations
People
Struggle
Survival
Threatened
Unfortunate
Between
Without
Wars
Erupt
Goes
Result
Saying
Struggles
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Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
War
Australia
World
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With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Arms
Clear
Made
Obstacles
Order
Path
Protect
Appeal
Nation
Decisive
Options
Stood
Thus
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Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
War
Japan
Real
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Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
War
China
Duration
Japan
Nevertheless
Position
Became
Unfortunately
Greatly
Regretted
Unable
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To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Respect
Existence
Order
Prejudice
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To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Respect
Existence
Order
Prejudice
Stable
Advocate
Free
Basis
Equally
Seek
New Order
Threats
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I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Equality
Japan
Principles
United States
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I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Ignorance
Advance
Cultural
Designed
In The Past
Present
Policies
Suppressed
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I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Equality
Britain
Delegates
Japan
Proposal
Rejected
States
United
United States
Versailles
Conference
Peace Conference
Point
Principle
Racial
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We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace - or, rather, a humiliating surrender.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Peace
Country
Demonstrating
Enemy
Humiliating
Percent
Surrender
Now
Without
Rather
See
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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
America
Inability
Japan
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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Failure
America
Asia
China
East
East Asia
Inability
Japan
Prejudice
Reason
Understand
Both
Without
Each
European
Powers
Sympathize
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Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Civilization
Justice
World
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During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Japan
Peaceful
Rupture
Survival
Commercial
Period
Grave
Obstructed
Primarily
Relations
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Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Achieve
Agree
Civilization
Justice
Moral
Nations
People
World
Nothing
True
Must
Seek
Standard
Vanquished
Victor
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From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Power
War
Fighting
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From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Effort
Fighting
Fronts
Obvious
Opening
Adding
Avoid
Nation
Enemies
View
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The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Causes
Japan
Rights
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The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Causes
China
Exclusion
Goods
Illegal
Insult
Japan
Persecution
Residents
Rights
Violation
Incident
Throughout
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The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Armed Forces
Japan
Notion
Officers
Position
Surrender
Unconditional
Accept
Appears
Armed
Forces
Frustrate
Imperial
Soldiers
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Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Power
Military
Views
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Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Amount
Military
Ministers
Operations
Planning
Point Of View
Control
Actual
Participate
View
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On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Army
Views
Would Be
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On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Army
Majesty
October
Point Of View
Unexpected
Cabinet
Imperial
Palace
Questioned
Received
Suddenly
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Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Success
Congratulations
Crisis
Economic
Force
Japan
Military
Possibility
Vain
Allowed
Consider
Further
Negotiations
Pass
Pressures
Therefore
Virtually
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Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Respect
War
Civilization
Destruction
Emotion
Hasty
Justice For All
Personal Freedom
Views
Judgments
Seek
Thus
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Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Attitude
Agree
China
Circumstances
Differences
England
Impossible
Japan
Party
States
Understood
Unfortunate
United States
Attitudes
Desires
Efforts
Misunderstandings
Parties
Ways
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In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
British
China
Circumstances
Direct
Observation
Actual
Based
Side
Dealing
Particularly
Interests
Judgments
Origins
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The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
War
Admiral
Break
Declaration
Japan
Naval
Pacific
Strong
Weeks
Effect
Forces
Main
Region
Shifted
Sunk
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However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Communication
Technology
Action
Diplomatic
Negotiation
Operations
Plans
Preparation
Cancel
However
Laid
Latest
Manner
Moment
Permitted
Preparations
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Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Peace
War
Belief
China
Destruction
Honest
Japan
Nations
Policy
War Peace World
All Nations
Based
Designed
Period
Efforts
Followed
Places
Restore
Spreading
Throughout
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When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo / Military Officer
Blessing
Clear
Great American
Heaven
Reflecting
Reflecting Upon
Seems
Should
Should Have
Surprise
Today
Achieving
Had
American
Alert
Attack
State
Concentrated
High
Fleet
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Succeeded
Supposed
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