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Roosevelt and Tanaka Memorial

“Before the US-Japan war, a false document called ‘Tanaka Memorial’ was written in China. This was a purported Japanese strategic planning document, in which Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka laid out for Emperor Hirohito a strategy to take over the world.

“President Roosevelt, senators and congressmen read this forgery, and believed the lie that Japan had a malicious intention to take over Asia and the world. That became a cause for the US-Japan war. It is said that after reading it, Roosevelt decided to defeat Japan entirely. Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking, a best seller in the USA, is the same.”

This is alleged to have been stated by Watanabe in https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/06/16/nanking-massacre-interview-with-arimasa-kubo-and-moteki-hiromichi-part-ii/ but it is undated so without context I do not know how to verify what evidence may or may not exist that he said it or not. Does anyone know if any information exists to support this being a quote from him, or a debunking that it was a hoax? 70.51.193.44 (talk) 17:53, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]