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Inejirō Asanuma Quotes

1898–1960 Japan

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Debate and theory are no longer needed… first, act.

Isn't my life somewhat slackened right now? I must be on guard.

Chairman Mao Zedong has expressed this with the apt phrase, 'the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind,' and today this phrase has become known not only in China but around the world.

A Prime Minister who arbitrarily interprets the Constitution and ignores its provisions is behaving like a despot.

You are the greatest Marxist of our era. May I ask, what is communism?

World history is revolving around the Danzig and Tianjin questions. … I feel that the gears of world history are accelerating still further.

However, my voice was not always this rattling voice.

Today I am again reading Kita's Shina Kakumei Gaishi [An Informal History of the Chinese Revolution].

Reading Kita Ikki's Shina Kakumei Gaishi while discussing it with Kita Reikichi.

Nichinichi kore kōnichi (日日是好日
Every day is a good day)

Long live the advancing socialism of China! Long live the restoration of diplomatic relations between China and Japan! Long live peace in Asia and the world!

American military bases in Japan are like American enclaves. Japanese courts have no jurisdiction inside them. This is nothing less than extraterritoriality.

Japan must develop an independent foreign policy based on the great principle of never intervening in war, aiming to become a bridge for peace connecting free Asia with the West.

Since I am large for a Japanese, he asked if I was born in the North. I answered "No, South." In physique alone, I would not fall short even among Westerners.

People often call me Maa-Maa Koji or say I am indecisive, timid, passive, etc. But in a mass organization, once a policy is decided at a congress, if everyone abides by it, there will be neither conflict nor split.

Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950)

Nehru of India has said, ‘We do not like foreign bases. The existence of foreign bases within a country means that foreign powers have entered into its very heart, and they always carry the scent of war.’ We, too, are deeply struck by exactly the same feeling.

There is no need to retract. This is not an attack on the American people; fighting imperialist policy is natural for the Socialist Party.

During elections, they keep policies that would be unpopular with the public a secret, and then once they have won a majority in the election, they will...

In proportion to Britain's decline we see America's advance in the Far East; America is advancing as an obstructer of the construction of the New Order in East Asia even more than Britain's retreat.

I am called the ‘Maa-Maa Koji.’

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Inejirō Asanuma (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.