Japanese Military Leader Quotes

Isoroku Yamamoto

Tomoyuki Yamashita

Chuichi Nagumo

Seishirō Itagaki

Shunroku Hata

As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.

Seishirō Itagaki

I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant, and his reaction will be terrible.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Mr. Chief of Staff [Ryunosuke Kusaka], what do you think? I feel that I've undertaken a heavy responsibility. If I had only been more firm and refused. Now we've left home waters and I'm beginning to wonder if the operation will work.

We have just received your reply. The Japanese Army will consider nothing but surrender.

Tomoyuki Yamashita