Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (245 page)
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Authors: Herbert P. Bix
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69.
Seki, “The Manchurian Incident, 1931,” p. 205; Hatano, “Mansh
jihen to âkych' seiryoku,” p. 110.
70.
Arai Naoyuki, “Tenn
hdno nani ga kawari, nani ga kawaranakatta no ka,” in Nihon Jy
narisuto Kaigi, ed.,
Yameru masu komi to Nihon
(Kbunky, 1995), pp. 181, 182, 189.
71.
Fujiwara,
Sh
wa tennno j
gonen sens, pp. 63â74.
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RANSFORMATION
1.
Eguchi Keiichi,
Jgonen sensshshi, shinpan
(Aoki Shoten, 1991), pp. 36â37.
2.
Hatano Sumio, “Manshjihen to âkych' seiryoku,”
Tochigi shigaku
5 (1991), p. 110, citing “Nara nikki,” Sept. 19, 1931.
3.
On Sept. 19, 1931, General Nara told Army Minister Minami that, “Although the Kwantung Army can independently determine the sphere of action of its duties as specified in its regulations, it must await the decision of the cabinet if its actions go beyond that sphere. If large-scale troop movements are necessary, we may need to convene an imperial conference.”
KYN, dai gokan
, p. 156; Yamada,
Dai gensui Shwa tenn, pp. 49, 83.
4.
Harada nikki, dai nikan
, p. 64; Fujiwara,
Shwa Tennno jgonen sens, p. 68. Chang Hsueh-liang's forces probably numbered closer to 130,000.
5.
All present were core members of the Jichikai (Association of the eleventh), a group of titled peers, of whom Kido was the most active. Formed in 1922 and representing the reform faction of the titled nobility, they shared Konoe's view that Nationalist China denoted merely a region of raw territory to be used to secure Japan's survival.