Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (203 page)

23.
Watanabe Katsuo, “Ky
ch
b
j
dai jiken no zenb
,” in
This Is Yomiuri
(Apr. 1993), p. 70. My own interpretation departs from Watanabe's in significant ways. For an older version of the incident, see George M. Wilson,
Radical Nationalist in Japan: Kita Ikki 1883–1937
(Harvard University Press, 1969), pp. 100–101.

24.
Watanabe, “Ky
ch
b
j
dai jiken no zenb
,” p. 81.

25.
On pan-Asianism, see John Welfield,
An Empire in Eclipse: Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System
(Athlone Press, 1988), pp. 8–10.

26.
Ibid., pp. 108–9.

27.
Takahashi Hidenari, “Hara Kei naikakuka no gikai,” in Uchida Kenz
et al., eds.,
Nihon gikaishi roku 2
(Dai Ichi H
ki Shuppan K. K., 1990) p. 251.

28.
Takahashi, “Hara Kei naikakuka no gikai,” p. 250.

29.
Fujiwara Akira, “Dai Nihon teikoku kenp
to tenn
,” in Fujiwara et al.,
Tenn
no Sh
wa-shi
(Shin Nihon Shinsho, 1984, 1990), p. 32. The connection between the imperial court and right-wing extremists and gangsters antedates the Meiji period and can be traced back to the influence of the Shinto revivalists on the court nobility at Kyoto.