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Toshio Shiratori , est un diplomate japonais qui fut ambassadeur en Italie de 1938 à 1940 et conseiller du ministre des Affaires étrangères en 1940. Il fait partie des 14 criminels de guerre de classe A vénérés au sanctuaire Yasukuni. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. juin 1887 – 3. juin 1949
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Toshio Shiratori: Citations en anglais

“Japan's true aim was to drive the white man out of Asia.”

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Quoted in "Race War" - Page 82 - by Gerald Horne.

“The west has always shown a sympathetic, although patronizing, appreciation of the old Japan. Many a foreign observer would remark with a sigh: 'What a pity that things of the past, of beauty and joy forever, should be so mercilessly sacrificed on the altar of modernism!”

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Quoted in "Behind the Face of Japan"- Page 265 - by Upton Close, Josef Washington Hall - 1942.

“…the three Powers, discarding the ideologies of individualism and democracy, have adopted the principle of dealing with human society from the totalitarian point of view.”

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Quoted in "Honorable Enemy" - Page 258 - by Ernest O. Hauser - 1941.

“The most serious menace to Japan comes from the Soviet Union. Numerous European countries will eventually embrace Communism. So will China and India if we just watch them with folded arms.”

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Letter to Hachiro Arita, November 1935. Quoted in "Beacon Across Asia: Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose" - Page 122 - by Subhas Chandra Bose, Sisir Kumar Bose, Narayan Gopal Jog - 1998.

“We are not imitating Hitler and Mussolini. They are imitating us. They have just discovered what we knew for centuries: that a corporate, collectivist system pays.”

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Quoted in "The American Mercury" - Page 157 - edited by Henry Louis Mencken - 1942.

“The greatest reason for Japan's participation in the Triple Alliance lies in the fact that the three signatory powers, at this time of great change in the world situation, have the same position, the same interest, and entertain the same political views. China is not Japan's real enemy in the present incident. In reality Japan is fighting Britain and America. The first thing we are now required to do is to carry out our southward advance.”

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Quoted in "World order in historical perspective" - Page 308 - by Hans Kohn - 1942.

“The war has now moved from China to South Eastern Asia, and is about to enter the stage of the war for all Asia.”

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Quoted in "Why We Lost Singapore" - Page 61 - by Dorothy Crisp - 1944.

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