Sadao Araki Quotes

Baron Sadao Araki was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. As one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the Empire of Japan, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Imperial Japanese Army and served as Minister of War under Prime Minister Inukai. He later served as Minister of Education during the Konoe and Hiranuma administrations. After World War II, he was convicted of war crimes and given a life sentence. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. May 1877 – 2. November 1966
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Famous Sadao Araki Quotes

“What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!”

Quoted in "They Shall Inherit the Earth" - Page 55 - by Otto Zoff, Anne Garrison - 1943

“The sword is our steel Bible!”

Quoted in "Irving Wallace: A Writer's Profile" - Page 373 - by John Leverence, Sam L. Grogg - 1974

“Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.”

Quoted in "The Quarterly review" - Page 20 - by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge - 1935

“Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.”

Quoted in "Until They Eat Stones" - Page 254 - by Russell Brines - 1944

“A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.”

Quoted in "Shakai kagaku tokyu" - Page 883 - by Waseda Daigaku Shakai Kagaku Kenkyujo, Waseda Daigaku Ajia Taiheiyo Kenkyu Senta - Social sciences - 1992

Sadao Araki Quotes

“If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.”

Quoted in "Sugamo Diary" - Page 30 - by Yoshio Kodama - 1960

“It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.”

Quoted in "Japan and the Defence of Australia" - Page 15 - by Edmund Leolin Piesse - 1935

“Setbacks there and at home will only increase our strength…”

About Japanese soldiers sent to Kiska. Quoted in "Out on the Causeway" - Time Magazine - May 24, 1943

“Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.”

Quoted in "The greatest battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow" - Page 215 - by Andrew Nagorski - 2007

“We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.”

Quoted in "Behind the Japanese Mask" - Page 43 - by Jesse Frederick Steiner - History - 1943

“It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.”

Quoted in "Britons Beaten?" - Time Magazine - October 16, 1933

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