Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (266 page)

18.
Masuda Tomoko, “Tenn
kikansetsu haigeki jiken to kokutai meich
und
,” in
Nagoya daigaku, H
sei ronsh
173 (Mar 1998). My page citations are to the galley proofs of this article, kindly made available to me by the author.

19.
On Mazaki's intervention see Wakatsuki Yasuo,
Nihon no sens
sekinin: saigo no sens
sedai kara, j
(Hara Shob
, 1995), p. 181;
Mazaki Jinzabur
nikki, dai nikan
(Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1981), p. 64.

20.
Katsuno,
Sh
wa tenn
no sens
,
p. 75.

21.
The first Okada statement had been drafted entirely by civil officials: namely, his private secretary Sakomizu Hisatsune, the director general of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau Kanamori Tokujiro, chief of the Cabinet Research Bureau Yoshida Shigeru, and Cabinet Secretary Shirane. See Masuda Tomoko, “Tenn
kikansetsu haigeki jiken to kokutai meich
und
,” p. 205.