Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (171 page)

TN
Takamatsu no miya Nobuhito Shinn
,
Takamatsu no miya nikki
, Vols. 1–8 (Ch
K
ronsha, 1997). The diary of Prince Takamatsu.

TWCT The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Complete Transcripts of the Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
, edited by R. John Pritchard and Sonia Maganua Zaide (N. Y. & London: Garland, 1981). Vols. 8, 12, 13, 20, and 21 are cited in the notes.

STD Sh
wa tenn
dokuhakuroku, Terasaki Hidenari, goy
gakari nikki
, Terasaki Hidenari and Mariko Terasaki Miller, eds. (Bungei Shunj
sha, 1991).

I
NTRODUCTION

1.
Adding to Hirohito's stress, by reminding him of the insecurity of monarchs in the wake of lost wars, were press reports on the forthcoming general election in Italy, which would determine not only the fate of his former Axis ally, the fascist King Victor Emmanuel III, but decide whether Italy itself would become a republic. See
Asahi shinbun
, Mar. 15,
Mainichi shinbun
, Mar. 21, and news reports thereafter until the abolition of the Italian monarchy and establishment of a republic following the general election on June 2, 1946.

2.
See Higashino Shin,
Sh
wa tenn
futatsu no ‘dokuhakuroku
' (NHK Shuppansha, 1998), p. 158, citing historian Yoshida Yutaka.

3.
“Inada Sh
ichi ‘Bib
roku' yori bassui,” March 18, 1946, in Higashino Shin, pp. 224–25. Inada, the director of the Imperial Palace Records Bureau, probably made the original stenographic record from which all versions of the “Monologue” derive. The other participants were Hirohito's liaison and interpreter with GHQ, Terasaki Hidenari, Imperial Household Minister Matsudaira Yasumasa, Vice–Grand Chamberlain Kinoshita Michio, and Matsudaira Yoshitami.

4.
Terasaki Hidenari and Mariko Terasaki Miller, eds.,
Sh
wa tenn
dokuhakuroku—Terasaki Hidenari goy
gakari nikki
(Bungei Shunj
sha, 1991), p. 136. Cited hereafter as
STD
.