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Yōsuke Matsuoka Quotes

1880–1946 Japan

Yōsuke Matsuoka (松岡洋右, Matsuoka Yōsuke; March 4, 1880 – June 27, 1946) was a Japanese diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in February 1933, ending Japan's participation in the organization.

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Japan has been and will always be the mainstay of peace, order and progress in the Far East.

We look into the gloom of the future and can see no certain gleam of light before us.

Japan would take action in a decisive form if she had the feeling that otherwise she would lose a chance which could only occur once in a thousand years.

Japan would take action... if she had the feeling that otherwise she would lose a chance which could only occur once in a thousand years.

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