Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (254 page)

57.
On the Meiji political order, see Nagai Kazu,
Kindai Nihon no gunbu to seiji
(Shibunkaku Shuppan, 1993), p. 260.

58.
Masuda, “Sait
Makoto kyokoku itchi naikakuron,” p. 256.

59.
Yu Shinjun,
Mansh
ji henki no Ch
-Nichi gaik
shi kenky
(T
h
Shoten, 1986), p. 380. Concerned to counter charges of violating the Nine-Power Pact, the Foreign Ministry commissioned Hirohito's teacher of international law, Tachi Sakutaro, to devise legal justifications for the recognition of Manchukuo.

60.
Yu Shinjun,
Mansh
jihenki no Ch
-Nichi gaik
shi kenky
, p. 381.

61.
Ibid.

62.
Ibid.

63.
James B. Crowley,
Japan's Quest for Autonomy: National Security and Foreign Policy, 1930–1938
(Princeton University Press, 1966), p. xv.

64.
Masuda, “Sait
Makoto kyokoku itchi naikakuron,” p. 255.

65.
Nakamura Kikuo,
Sh
wa rikugun hishi
(Banch
Shob
, 1968), pp. 41–43.