Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (300 page)

25.
Takagi's views were laid out in his report of July 27, 1940, entitled “The Recent Situation of the Empire and the Position of the Navy” [Teikoku no kinj
to kaigun no tachiba]. See K
ketsu,
Nihon kaigun no sh
sen k
saku
, pp. 51–54.

26.
Ibid., pp. 51–52.

27.
Harada nikki, dai hakkan
, p. 32.
Kido nikki, ge
, p. 788.

28.
Harada nikki, dai nanakan
, p. 339.

29.
Ibid., p. 108.

30.
Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
wa tenn
, I, shinryaku
, pp. 109–12.

31.
HSN
, p. 258; Yasuda Hiroshi,
Tenn
no seijishi
, p. 268.

32.
Kido K
ichi niki, ge
, p. 794.

33.
HSN
, p. 268.

34.
Senshi s
sho: Rikukaigun nenpy
: fu heigo, y
go no kaisetsu
(1980), p. 336; Gerald Bunker,
The Peace Conspiracy: Wang Ching-wei and the China War, 1937–1941
(Harvard University Press, 1972), pp. 58, 238–41.

35.
Kido K
ichi nikki, ge,
p. 802.

36.
Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
wa tenn
I, shinryaku
, pp. 113–16.