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General MacArthur: “The Japanese are used to being led. It was the Imperial family for however many thousand years, and then it was the generals, and now it’s us.”

Strangely similar to Machiavelli and conquering other peoples.

I wonder how accurate the trial is.
Tojo, after an objection that isn’t following normal procedure: “Tojo linked his fingers in his lap and dropped his eyes
“Quietly, in English, he said, ‘I will be hanged in any case.’”

(cont.) Keenan: “You’re talking about principle, sir. I’m talking about facts.”
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Tojo: “The end of war forever would require the ending of desire. This is fact.”
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Tojo: “Desire is infinite in all nations. So it is with men. War is inevitable. What is inevitable cannot be a crime.”

‘“In principle,”’ Tojo said, ‘it is not so different from your Monroe Doctrine.’”

PM Tojo to Chief Prosecutor Keenan on Japan’s invasion of Manchuria and the islands in the Pacific