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92.
Right-wing organizations increased from 23 in 1926 to 196 in 1932. After 1929 many of them added anticapitalist rhetoric to their usual anti-Westernism. The more important ones were the new study associations in which young bureaucrats played leading roles. See Suzuki,
K
shitsu seido
, p. 170.

93.
In the early 1930s, Yasuoka reaffirmed the separation of the
kokutai
from the form of government (
seitai
), and preached that any form of government, whether parliamentarism or military dictatorship, should be tolerated as long as it served to protect the
kokutai
. Otabe Y
ji, “Tenn
sei ideorogii to shin Ei-Bei ha no keifu: Yasuoka Masahiro o ch
shin ni” in
Shien
vol. 43, no. 1 (May 1983), pp. 27, 29, and n. 3.

94.
Suzuki,
Kindai no tenn
,
pp. 51–52.

95.
Ibid., p. 53, citing Nagata, p. 85.

96.
Ibid., p. 54.

97.
Kurozawa Fumitaka, “Gunbu no ‘Taish
demokurashii' ninshiki no ichidanmen,” in Kindai Gaik
shi Kenky
kai, ed.,
Hend
ki no Nihon gaik
to gunji: shiry
to kent
(Hara Shob
, 1987), p. 49.

98.
Ibid., p. 48.

99.
Ibid., p. 49, citing Inspector General of Military Education Mut
Nobuyoshi in Mar. 1932.