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Eguchi, “Ch
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94.
Harada nikki, dai nanakan
, p. 51, entry of July 28, l938. Harada also drew attention, several weeks later, to Kido's growing criticism of Privy Seal Yuasa Kurahei. On Sept. 16, Harada wrote that he had seen Kido on the eleventh and heard him say that “the privy seal goes by the law on everything. Whenever something happens, he says deal with the matter in accordance with the law. He urges the chief of the Metropolitan Police to
apply the law. He doesn't understand the times…. [Yuasa] can't get along with the prime minister. The right wing, for instance, is more advanced.”
Harada nikki, dai nanakan
, p. 108.

95.
Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
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(Ryokuf
Shuppan, 1989), p. 84.

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Hsi-Sheng Ch'i, “The Military Dimension, 1942–1945,” in James C. Hsiung and Steven I. Levine,
China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan 1937–1945
(M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1992), p. 179.

97.
Inoue Kiyoshi,
Tenn
no sens
sekinin
(Iwanami Shoten, 1991), p. 121.

98.
Yoshimi Yoshiaki,
Kusa no ne fuashizumu: Nihon minsh
no sens
taiken
(Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1991), p. 27. Tacked on to the three principles was a statement that Japan would not insist on territory or reparations, would respect China's sovereignty, abolish extraterritoriality, and give positive consideration to returning its concessions in China.

99.
Okabe Makio, “Ajia-Taiheiy
sens
,” in Nakamura Masanori, et al., eds,
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100.
Harada nikki, dai nanakan
, pp. 249, 258. Hiranuma's designated foreign minister, Arita Hachir
, also made opposition to a tripartite pact a condition for his entering the cabinet. On Hiranuma's dissolution of the Kokuhonsha, see Christopher A. Szpilman, “The Politics of Cultural Conservatism: The National Foundation Society in the Struggle Against Foreign Ideas in Prewar Japan, 1918–1936,” Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1993.