Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (265 page)

14.
TN, dai nikan
, Sept. 26, 1933, pp. 147–48.

15.
MNN
, p. 636, cited in Matsuzaki Sh
ichi, “saik
‘Umezu-Ho Ying-ch'in
ky
tei',” in Gunjishi Gakkai, ed.,
Nitch
sens
no shos
(Mensh
sha, 1997), p. 45.

16.
Foreign Ministry official Amou Eiji had declared Japan responsible for the maintenance of peace and order in East Asia, and opposed in principle to any offers of significant financial or technical assistance to China. For discussion, see Kobayashi Motohiro, “Hirota k
ki ni sens
sekinin wa nakatta ka,” in Fujiwara et al., eds.,
Nihon kindaishi no kyoz
to jitsuz
3, Mansh
jihen—haisen
, p. 100.

17.
Katsuno,
Sh
wa tenn
no sens
, p. 76.