Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tanaka: "I hope we can all live and prosper peacefully. But I will struggle all my life-and die if I must-to keep the few from dominating the many as they did in militaristic Japan and do in Communist Russia...
...Tanaka: "That is why there is no more liberty in Russia than there was in Japan when we were allowed to believe only in the Emperor's divinity...
...Tanaka: "As Premier Yoshida has said, 'No country with brains stays a colony; America was a colony once.' Many things are now decided by the American occupation authorities, but that is the price of defeat. America is helping...
...Tanaka: "I think Admiral Togo† is the greatest man in Japanese history. Togo was an honest nationalist, which is not the same thing as a militarist. I also respect Admiral Yamamoto [who planned and carried out the attack on Pearl Harbor], not as a militarist but as an excellent human being. I had a copy of his biography, but when we surrendered I burned...
...Tanaka: "I then thought that the Americans would punish me for having such a book, so I burned it and many others. Now I would not do so because I know Americans value freedom of thought. In the old days, we had no chance to think for ourselves. Now we can, and most of us have changed our minds, but democracy has come so fast that we are not yet able to understand all its meaning and spirit...