Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (312 page)

42.
A recent example of such polemic is Seishir
Sugihara,
Between Incompetence and Culpability: Assessing the Diplomacy of Japan's Foreign Ministry from Pearl Harbor to Potsdam
, trans. Norman Hu (University Press of America, 1997).

43.
Sud
,
Nichi-Bei kaisen gaik
no kenky
, p. 186.

44.
K
ketsu Atsushi,
Nihon kaigun no sh
sen k
saku: Ajia-Taiheiy
sens
no saikent
(Ch
k
Shinsho, 1996), pp. 57–58.

45.
Cited in ibid., pp. 58–59.

46.
Kido's reply to Henry R. Sackett, Mar. 4, 1946, Sugamo Prison, p. 603, in case 5, vol. 5, series 81180, National Archives Record Group 331, Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, World War II.

47.
TN, dai sankan
, pp. 283–84.

48.
Yamada Akira,
Gunbi kakuch
no kindaishi: Nihongun no kakuch
to h
kai
, p. 223, citing
Senshi s
sho 65, Dai hon'ei rikugunbu, Dai T
'A sens
kaisen keii (1)
p. 368–69.