Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (210 page)

73.
Ibid., p. 88.

74.
The tour could not compensate for Hirohito's isolated upbringing, or teach him to conceive freedom as also meaning relief from toil and scarcity of goods. Nor did his sudden encounter with Western living in Europe lead him to espouse the modern ideal of freedom as being true to oneself.

75.
Sasaki,
Gendai tenn
sei no kigen to kin
, p. 86.

76.
Ibid., p. 89.

77.
Ilse Hayden,
Symbol and Privilege: The Ritual Context of British Royalty
(University of Arizona Press, 1987), p. 45.

78.
“Nara Takeji kais
roku (s
an),” pp. 318–19.

79.
Ibid., pp. 319–20.

80.
On Hara's assassination, see Got
Takeo, “K
taishi no gaiy
o habamu mono,” in
Bungei shunj
to kushugo, tenn
hakusho
(Oct. 1956), pp. 96–97;
Tokyo nichi nichi shinbun
, Nov. 5, 1921, in
Taish
ny
su jiten, dai gokan
, p. 567.

81.
MNN
, p. 34, entry of Nov. 5, 1921.

C
HAPTER
4
T
HE
R
EGENCY AND THE
C
RISIS OF
T
AISH
O D
EMOCRACY

1.
Yasuda,
Tenn
no seijishi
, p. 196.

2.
“Nara Takeji kais
roku (s
an),” p. 329.