Quoted in "British Relations with China" - Page 138 - by Irving Sigmund Friedman - History - 1940.
Hirota Kōki: Zitate auf Englisch
Quoted in "Modern Japan: A Brief History" - Page 135 - by Arthur E. Tiedemann - 1962.
Quoted in "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing" - Page 56 - by Robert Sabella, Fei Fei Li, David Liu - History - 2002.
Quoted in "Japan at the Crossroads" - Page 64 - by Walter Smith - 1936.
“I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.”
Quoted in "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" - Page 49 - by John Toland - History - 2003.
Quoted in "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki" - Page 296 - by Saburō Shiroyama - 1977.
To the Japanese Parliament on January 21, 1936. Quoted in "The Virginia quarterly review: A National Journal of Literature and Discussion" - Page 164 - by University of Virginia - 1936.