Hachiro Arita Quotes
Merely to call for absolute victory will produce nothing. In order to make the divine land … imperishable, we must bear the unbearable.
This appears to be the origin of the “bear the unbearable” phrase which appeared in many other documents around the Japanese surrender. See {604741}
Hachiro Arita, *, Japanese Foreign Minister, Report to the Emperor on the War Situation, July 9, 1945
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After the Japanese surrender in World War II, the Japanese assumed that the American occupational soldiers would rape Japanese women the way that the Japanese soldiers had done in their occupations. They therefore came up with a plan to have some Japanese women serve as prostitutes in organized brothels so that the Americans' lust would be satisfied.
He was not supported and a peace was negotiated with the British. De la Rey became a Senator and later was shot while trying to organize another rebellion.
It was this code, and its implementation in Saipan, Okinawa, and other Japanese held islands taken by the allies that caused Japanese soldiers to fight to the death or commit suicide. The prospect of this code being followed by Japanese soldiers, civilians or both in an invasion of the Japanese mainland, was one of the major arguments in favor of dropping the Atomic Bomb in World War II.
- Born: September 22, 1884
- Died: March 4, 1965
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Hachirō Arita was a Japanese politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs for three terms. He is believed to have originated the concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
