“There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do.”

— Iwane Matsui

Quoted in "Tennou no guntai to Nankin jiken" by Yoshida Hiroshi - 1998 Aoki shoten, page 71.

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Japanese general 1878–1948

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