history · 15 August 1937 · 87 years ago
Japanese Army General Iwane Matsui, en route from Tokyo, Japan for China where he would pick up his newly assigned command over the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, he noted to War Minister Hajime Sugiyama that "here is no solution exception to break the power of Chiang Kaishek by capturing Nanjing. That is what I must do."
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