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Shunroku Hata was a Field Marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was the last surviving Japanese military officer with a marshal's rank. Hata was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment following the war. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. July 1879 – 10. May 1962
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Famous Shunroku Hata Quotes

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

Shunroku Hata

Quoted in "The Secret History of the War" - Page 342 - 1945

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

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Quoted in "Enter Japan" - "Time Magazine" article - July 8, 1940

“The kind of slaughter and violence that we have seen in this war, was in my experience very rare during the Russo-Japanese war. In modern war, the whole people are mobilized. Hence the majority of the troops correspond to the people as a whole. An army in which scandals and atrocities occur in great numbers, must surely reflect a decline in public morality?”

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Quoted in "Singapore, 1941-1942" - Page 269 - by Louis Allen - History - 1993

“I will take responsibility for all operations.”

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Quoted in "The Nebraska State Journal" - Newspaper - December 4, 1945

“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.”

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Quoted in "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939" - by Alvin D. Coox - Page 1184 - 1990

“We are against dependence on a change in the international situation for the solution of the China Incident.”

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Quoted in "Tokyo Record" - Page 149 - by Otto David Tolischus - 1943

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

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1939. Quoted in "Objective: Limited" - "Time Magazine" article - December 20, 1943

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