Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (289 page)

78.
Kasahara,
Nitch
zenmen sens
to kaigun
, pp. 214–15.

79.
Sun,
China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931–1941
, p. 97.

80.
Fujiwara,
Sh
wa tenn
no j
gonen sens
, p. 96.

81.
Yamada,
Daigensui Sh
wa tenn
, p. 81, citing
Gendaishi shiry
, dai ky
kan, Nitch
sens
I
, p. 50.

82.
Harada nikki, dai rokkan
, p. 204.

83.
Yamada,
Daigensui Sh
wa tenn
, p. 84, citing
Harada nikki, dai rokkan
, p. 207. The
Tokyo Nichi Nichi shinbun
(evening edition), Jan. 12, 1938, carried the banner headlines:
HISTORICAL IMPERIAL CONFERENCE HELD
,
EMPIRE'S UNSHAKEABLE POLICY DECIDED, HOPE TO ERADICATE ANTI-JAPANESE REGIME AND STRIVE TO ESTABLISH PEACE IN THE ORIENT
. The
Tokyo Asahi shinbun
's announcement described the seating arrangements and the layout of the conference room.