Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (211 page)

3.
Makino's entry of Aug. 23, 1921, notes: “Yesterday the chief military aide-de-camp visited me and said, ‘I think it's necessary to devise a method for him to learn political affairs following his return.' I agreed emphatically…and told him to study the matter.”
MNN
, p. 25.

4.
Regular lectures are mentioned in Nagazumi,
Sh
wa tenn
to watakushi
, pp. 109–11.

5.
Other lecturers during the 1920s included Hirohito's teacher of Japanese literature, Professor Haga Yaichi; a Professor Toribe, who taught Chinese literature; Professor Kat
Shigeru, who lectured on Chinese history and philosophy; Yamamoto Shinjir
, Hirohito's translator and teacher of French; and the right-wing constitutional scholar Kakei Katsuhiko.

6.
Shimizu T
ru, “Kenp
to k
shitsu tenpan o goshink
m
shiagete,” in
Jitsugy
no Nihon z
kan: gotaiten kinen shashing
(Nov. 1928), pp. 20–21.

7.
MNN
, pp. 109–10.

8.
KYN, dai ikkan
(Iwanami Shoten, 1993), p. 49;
MNN,
p. 263.

9.
KYN, dai ikkan
, pp. 115, 142, 152, 219, 252, 260;
dai nikan
, p. 32.

10.
KYN, dai ikkan,
p. 55.

11.
Ibid., pp. 79–80, 85, 87.

12.
Shinohara Hatsue, “An Intellectual Foundation for the Road to Pearl Harbor: Quincy Wright and Tachi Sakutaro.” Paper presented at the Conference on the United States and Japan in World War II, Hofstra University, Dec. 1991, p. 3. The material in this and the next paragraph comes from Ms. Shinohara's helpful paper.

13.
Tachi's massive study of international law was published in two parts—peacetime law and wartime law—in 1930–31. Kawai Yahachi's earliest diary entries on Tachi occur on Sept. 30 and Oct. 14, 1926. See
KYN, dai ikkan
, pp. 31, 36.

14.
KYN, dai gokan
, p. 16, entry of Jan. 29, 1931.

15.
Makino believed that Hirohito's participation in military exercises was useful for instructing both himself and the emperor in the politics of war expenditures. Hirohito's partiality for navy leaders such as Adms. Suzuki Kantar
and Okada Keisuke may have reflected Makino's influence. See
MNN
, pp. 289–91, where he discusses Hirohito's and his own participation in naval exercises staged outside Tokyo Bay between Oct. 20–25, 1927.