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Mitsumasa Yonai Quotes

d. 1948 Japan

Mitsumasa Yonai (March 2, 1880 – April 20, 1948) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan.

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Also known as: Yonai, Mitsumasa

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Japan is fully prepared to take appropriate steps in event that the United States continues its oppression.

We might win the first battle for Japan, but we won't win the second. The war is lost to us. Therefore we must forget about 'face,' we must surrender as quickly as we can, and we must begin to consider at once how best to preserve our country.

There is no chance whatsoever of victory; therefore I agree with the foreign minister that the Potsdam declaration should be accepted at once, with only that one condition about retaining the Emperor.

Our defeat at Leyte was tantamount to the loss of the Philippines. When you [the Allies] took the Philippines, that was the end of our resources.

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