Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (271 page)

50.
Cited in Suzaki Shinichi, “S
ryokusen rikai o megutte: rikugun ch
jiku to n
ten n
roku jiken no seinen sh
k
no aida,” in
Nenp
Nihon gendaishi
3 (1997), p. 73.

51.
Ibid., p. 77.

52.
Imaoka Yutaka, “Shina jihen mae no sanb
no ugoki,” in D
dai Kurabu K
ensh
,
Sh
wa gunji hiwa, ge
(D
dai Keizai Konwakai kan, 1989), p. 116.

53.
STD
, pp. 32–33. Hirohito forced the resignation of Generals Araki, Hayashi, Mazaki, Nishi, Abe, Ueda, and Terauchi and sanctioned the placing of four of them on the reserve list. See Hillis Lory,
Japan's Military Masters: The Army in Japanese Life
(Greenwood Press, 1943, 1973), p. 115.

54.
Yamada,
Dai gensui Sh
wa tenn
, pp. 56, 59.