Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (262 page)

106.
The analysis in this and the next few paragraphs is based on the incomplete script of
Hij
ji Nihon
and the open-court testimony of Mizuno Yoshiyuki, who in 1933 headed the movie department of the Osaka Mainichi. Both documents are reproduced in
GS40
.

107.
Mizuno in
GS40,
pp. 253–54.

108.
GS40
, pp. 242–43.

109.
Ibid., p. 248, reel/segment 9.

110.
Ibid., pp. 251–52. Meiji's three poems were: “The bravery of the Yamato spirit always manifests itself in an emergency”; “A man pierces iron with an arrow. Our Yamato spirit carries it through”; “If we gather together the strength of hundreds of thousands of loyal subjects, we can accomplish anything.”

111.
Material in this and the following paragraphs, unless otherwise noted, is drawn from Suzaki Shinichi, “S
ryokusen rikai o megutte: rikugun ch
jiku to 2.26 jiken no seinen sh
k
no aida,” in
Nenp
Nihon gendaishi, No. 3 1997
(Gendai Shiry
Shuppan, 1997).

112.
Ibid., p. 55.

113.
Ibid., p. 56.

114.
T
j
Hideki, “Sh
hai no bunkiten wa shis
sen: senji heiji tomo sunkokumo yudan wa naranu,” in Rikugun, ed.,
Hij
ji kokumin zensh
(Ch
K
ronsha, 1934), pp. 54, 65.