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Shunroku Hata Quotes

1879–1962 Japan

Shunroku Hata (July 26, 1879 – May 10, 1962) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was appointed as commanding general of the Central China Expeditionary Army in February 1938, to replace General Matsui Iwane.

Japan
Military leaders

Also known as: Hata, Shunroku

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

We are against dependence on a change in the international situation for the solution of the China Incident.

I will take responsibility for all operations.

Asia, in cooperation with Europe, is about to take simultaneous action towards realization of a New World Order.

We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.

I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.

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