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.

c. mid-July 1939 (meeting with U.S. Senator Tydings in Washington), Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary, trans. from Japanese. In Dōshisha Hōgaku (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021)