TL;DR Ishiba is trying to restore a speech given by Takao Saito (1870–1949), a Lower House member of the Constitutional Democratic Party, during a Feb. 1940 plenary session of the Imperial Diet’s Lower House.
The 90 minute speech called for an end of the war and sought accountability from the Cabinet and military for demanding sacrifices from the public. The military was angered by the speech and demanded retraction resulting in deletion of two-third of the speech and Saito being expelled from the Imperial Diet.
In December the following year, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and start of WWII in the pacific.
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