Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (279 page)

13.
Edgar Snow,
The Battle for Asia
(Random House, 1941), p. 46; Dick Wilson,
When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945
(Viking Press, 1982), p. 33.

14.
On Yonai, his sudden reversal of attitude toward the Kuomintang, and the start of the war, see Aizawa Kiyoshi, “Nitch
sens
no zenmenka to Yonai Mitsumasa,” in Gunji Shigakkai, ed.,
Nitch
sens
shos
(Kinseisha, 1997), pp. 137–38

15.
Kasahara Tokushi,
Nankin jiken
(Iwanami Shinsho, 1997), p. 221.

16.
Fujiwara,
Sh
wa tenn
no j
gonen sens
, pp. 93–94.

17.
K
ketsu,
Nihon kaigun no sh
sen k
saku: Ajia-Taiheiy
sens
no saikensh
, p. 18.