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The west has always shown a sympathetic, although patronizing, appreciation of the old Japan. Many a foreign observer would remark with a sigh: 'What a pity that things of the past, of beauty and joy forever, should be so mercilessly sacrificed on the altar of modernism!'

— Toshio Shiratori

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The war has now moved from China to South Eastern Asia, and is about to enter the stage of the war for all Asia.

Japan's true aim was to drive the white man out of Asia.

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The most serious menace to Japan comes from the Soviet Union. Numerous European countries will eventually embrace Communism. So will China and India if we just watch them with folded arms.

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