Sadao Araki citations

Le baron Sadao Araki est un général de l'armée impériale japonaise qui fut l'un des principaux théoriciens nationalistes de l'empire du Japon. Il est considéré comme le chef de la faction radicale de la voie impériale et fut ministre de la Guerre dans le gouvernement du Premier ministre Tsuyoshi Inukai. Il est plus tard ministre de l'Éducation dans les gouvernement Konoe et Hiranuma. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est jugé pour crimes de guerre et condamné à la prison à perpétuité. Il est incarcéré pendant dix ans avant d'être libéré en 1955 pour raisons de santé. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. mai 1877 – 2. novembre 1966
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Sadao Araki: Citations en anglais

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The sword is our steel Bible!”

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

“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