“Japan has a snake in her bosom. That snake is namely flatterers. What led Japan to defeat is neither army nor government, but the snake in Japan’s bosom, the flatterers.”
— Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, “The Making of the New Japan” (translated by Lesley Connors)
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