All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.
The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.