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60.
Kido nikki—Tokyo saibanki
(Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1980), p. 460. Although the professed intention of the act's architects was to prevent a Japan–U.S. war, their true feelings were quite different. See Tanaka, vol. 1, pp. 117–18; Inoue,
Tenn
no sens
sekinin
, p. 139.

61.
Senda,
Tenn
to chokugo to Sh
washi
, pp. 311–13.

62.
Mori Shigeki, “Matsuoka gaik
ni okeru tai-Bei oyobi tai-Ei saku: Nichi-Doku-I sangoku d
mei teiketsu zengo no k
s
to tenkai,” in
Nihonshi kenky
, 421 (Sept. 1997), p. 50, citing
Asahi shinbun
, morning edition, Oct. 5, 1940.

63.
Kido K
ichi nikki, ge
, p. 830, entry of Oct. 17, 1940.

64.
Furukawa Takahisa, “Kigensetsu nisen roppyaku nen h
shuku kinen jigy
o meguru seiji katei,” in
Shigaku zasshi
103, no. 9 (Sept. 1994), p. 1 (1573).

65.
Matsuo Sh
ichi,
Kindai tenn
sei kokka to minsh
, Ajia, ge
(H
sei Daigaku Shuppan Kyoku, 1998), p. 183.