In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.