Yōsuke Matsuoka

Japan has been and will always be the mainstay of peace, order and progress in the Far East.

We look into the gloom of the future and can see no certain gleam of light before us.

Japan will oppose any attempt at international control of Manchuria. It does not mean that we defy you, because Manchuria belongs to us by right. Read your history. We recovered Manchuria from Russia. We made it what it is today.