Iwane Matsui Quote

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

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

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

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

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

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