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75.
Ibid., pp. 348–49; Yamada,
Dai gensui Sh
wa tenn
, p. 52.

76.
“Nara Takeji jij
bukanch
nikki (sho),” p. 349.

77.
Ibid.; Yamada,
Dai gensui Sh
wa tenn
, pp. 51–53.

78.
Parks M. Coble,
Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931–1937
(Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. 94–95.

79.
“Nara Takeji jij
bukanch
nikki (sho),” p. 351, entries of Feb. 21–22, 1933.

80.
Kido K
ichi nikki, j
, p. 216. On the League's mandate system, see Sharon Korman,
The Right of Conquest
(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. 142–43.

81.
Otabe Y
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, ‘dokudansha' Matsuoka z
no sh
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Shinano Mainichi
(June 5, 1995).