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

If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.

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!

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.