The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

The sunshine of the mind.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into the world.

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.