Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (283 page)

40.
In his short “Introduction” to his translation of the 1941 policy conferences, Nobutaka Ike seriously misdescribes Hirohito's relationship to the high command. See Nobutaka Ike,
Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences
(Stanford University Press, 1967), p. xviii.

41.
Yamada,
Daigensui Sh
wa tenn
, p. 185.

42.
Suzaki Shinichi, “Tenn
to sens
” in
Seiji taisei to sens
shid
(n.d., n.p.), p. 218. Kido alluded to this reality in discussing the emperor's war responsibility on July 21, 1964. “When the emperor was not persuaded,” he explained, “the question would be suspended and the decision postponed or the cabinet would reconsider the matter. That was the custom.”
Kido K
ichi nikki—Tokyo saibanki
(Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1980), p. 454.

43.
Fujiwara Akira, Imai Seiichi,
e Shinobu, eds.,
Kindai Nihonshi no kiso chishiki
(Y
hikaku, 1972), p. 418; Yoshida,
Tenn
no guntai to Nankin jiken
, p. 41; Fujiwara,
Nankin no Nihon gun: Nankin daigyakusatsu to sono haikei
, p. 18.

44.
Fujiwara,
Nankin no Nihon gun
, p. 16.

45.
Ibid., p. 20.

46.
Kasahara,
Nankin jiken
, p. 225; Eguchi,
J
gonen sens
sh
shi, shinpan
, p. 129.