--- title: Taketora Ogata url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/taketora-ogata/ description: 0 verified quotes from Taketora Ogata, President of the Cabinet Information Bureau (1944-45); Chief Cabinet Secretary (1945), with sources. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a dossier collage of an intelligence briefing room with case files and behavioral-analysis notes on a chalkboard.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-learn.jpg) [Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · Japan # Taketora Ogata President of the Cabinet Information Bureau (1944-45); Chief Cabinet Secretary (1945) · Japan On the regime page: [Empire of Japan, 1937 to 1945](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/#taketora-ogata) 0 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=taketora-ogata). 1. No quote has passed verification yet. ## Often attributed, not verified These words circulate under Taketora Ogata’s name but could not be traced to a source. They are listed so readers can check them, not as Taketora Ogata’s words. - > “An active press was essential for maintaining the fighting spirit of the people.” — Paraphrase Usually said to come from: Ogata Taketora, statement to the Diet as Minister of State in charge of the Information Bureau, reported in the Asahi Shimbun, 9 September 1944 — Appears in a linguistics paper (ERIC ED421885, Contrastive Analysis of Japanese Wartime and Peacetime Press Discourse) as a paraphrase ('declared before the Diet that ...') citing the Asahi of 9 September 1944. The Asahi report or Diet record was not seen, so no direct wording can be published. - > “He would try to make the best use of his experience as a newspaperman and intended to provide reporters with all information given out by the government.” — Paraphrase Usually said to come from: Ogata, address to the board of the Cabinet Information Bureau, 15 August 1944 (reported in US State Department biographic files released by the CIA Reading Room) — Reported in third-person summary in the biographic file for Ogata Taketora (CIA Reading Room). The file itself could not be opened from this environment (access blocked), and the summary is not a verbatim quotation.