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.

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.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

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

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

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

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