Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (220 page)

77.
Fujiwara,
Sh
wa tenn
no j
gonen sens
, p. 43.

78.
Ibid., p. 44.

79.
Miyaji Masato, “Seiji shi ni okeru tenn
no kin
” in Rekishigaku kenky
kai, ed.,
Tenn
to tenn
sei o kangaeru
(Aoki Shoten 1988), p. 97.

80.
Yasuda Hiroshi, “Kindai tenn
sei ni okeru kenryoku to ken'i—Taish
demokurashii-ki no k
satsu,” in
Bunka hy
ron
357 (Oct. 1990), p. 188.

81.
Ibid., p. 157. Article 1 of the new thought-control law stated:
Anyone who has formed an association with the object of altering the national polity [
kokutai
] or the form of government [
seitai
], or disavowing the system of private ownership, or anyone who has joined such an association with the full knowledge of its objects, shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labor for a term not exceeding ten years.

82.
Suzuki, “Taish
demokurashii to kokutai mondai,” p. 63.