Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (288 page)

71.
The American press in the late 1930s generally “tended to slight events in the Pacific” and seldom gave Asian news stories front-page attention. See James C. Schneider,
Should America Go to War? The Debate over Foreign Policy in Chicago, 1939–1941
(University of North Carolina Press, 1989), p. 150.

72.
Kasahara,
Nitch
zenmen sens
to kaigun
, pp. 304–5.

73.
Chicago Daily News
, Dec. 14, 1937; Kasahara,
Nitch
zenmen sens
to kaigun
, pp. 247, 303.

74.
Los Angeles Times
, Dec. 14, 1937.

75.
See Allan Robert Brown, “The Figurehead Role of the Japanese Emperor: Perception and Reality.” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Univ. Microfilms, 1971), pp. 197–98.

76.
Ishijima Noriyuki, “Ch
goku no k
sen taisei to taigai kankei,” in Rekishigaku Kenky
kai, ed.,
K
za sekaishi 8, Sens
to minsh
: dai niji sekai taisen
(Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1996), pp. 53–54; Youli Sun,
China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931–1941
(St. Martin's Press, 1993), pp. 92–95.

77.
Fujiwara,
Sh
wa tenn
no j
gonen sens
, p. 96.