Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (281 page)

27.
Senda Kak
,
Tenn
to chokugo to Sh
wa shi
(Sekibunsha, 1990), pp. 257–58.

28.
For a discussion of “compassionate killing,” see Brian A. Victoria,
Zen at War
(Weatherhill, Inc., 1997), pp. 86–91.

29.
Hara Takeshi, Yasuoka Akio, ed.,
Nihon rikukaigun jiten
(Shinjinbutsu Oraisha, 1997), p. 152; Mori Shigeki, “Kokusaku kettei katei no heny
: dai niji, dai sanji Konoe naikaku no kokusaku kettei o meguru ‘kokumu' to ‘t
sui,'” in
Nihonshi kenky
395 (July 1995), pp. 36 ff.

30.
Mori, “Kokusaku kettei katei no heny
,” p. 41.

31.
e Shinobu,
Gozen kaigi
, p. 101. Official minutes were not kept, but the two volumes of documents and notes dictated by General Sugiyama, largely written by Sanada J
ichir
, and known as the Sugiyama memo, are an invaluable source. For the conferences of 1940–41, see sanb
honbu, ed.,
Sugiyama memo, j
(Hara Shob
, 1994).

32.
Tokyo nichi nichi shinbun
and
Tokyo Asahi shinbun
for Jan. 12, 1938; July 28,
1940; Sept. 20, 1940; Nov. 14, 1940; and July 2 and 3, 1941. The all-important imperial conferences of Sept. 6 and Nov. 5, 1941, were not, so far as I can tell, reported in the press.