Second Sino-Japanese War/Quotes

"Keep men, lose land: land can be taken again. Keep land, lose men: land and men are both lost."

- Mao Zedong, 1939

"We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extreme which makes sacrifice inevitable."

- Chiang Kai Shek, 1939

"In the event of a sustained nuclear bombing, the protection of the Japanese nation would be rather difficult."

- Emperor Hirohito, 1945

"The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage."

- Emperor Hirohito, 1945

"The Greater East Asian War was righteous and justified."

- General Hideki Tojo, 1946

"KILL ALL CAPTIVES"

- Memo from Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, ordering the Nanking massacre