Read Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Online
Authors: Herbert P. Bix
Tags: #General, #History, #Biography & Autobiography, #Military, #World War II
76.
STD
, p, 67.
77.
Kaigun ch
j
Hoshina Zenshir
Kais
ki,
Dai T
'A sens
hishi: ushinawareta wahei k
saku
(Hara Shob
, 1975), p. 43. Vice Admiral Hoshina, chief of the Navy Ministry's Weapons Bureau and a planner of the Pearl Harbor attack, attended the seventeen-hour-long liaison conference on Nov. 1 and took notes.
78.
Ibid., p. 43.
79.
Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
wa tenn
, dai ikkan
, pp. 270â71.
80.
Sugiyama memo, j
,
p. 387.
81.
Ibid. Hirohito was referring to “Hitler's pope,” the anti-Semitic Pius XII.
82.
The “Plan for Ending the War with the U.S., Britain, the Netherlands,
and Chiang Kai-shek” contained the following linesâthe last two inserted at Hirohito's request:
Wait for a good opportunity in the European war situation, particularly collapse of mainland England, ending of the German-Soviet war, and success of our policies toward India.
â¦[S]trengthen diplomatic and propaganda measures vis-a-vis various countries in South America, Sweden, Portugal, and the Vatican. Conclude separate agreements with Germany and Italy not to make unilateral peaceâ¦. [F]ind ways to avoid immedi ately concluding peace with Britain at the time of its surrender, and immediately take measures that will force Britain to induce the United States [to make peace].
The document is reproduced in full in Yamada Akira, ed.,
Gaik
shiry
: kindai Nihon no b
ch
to shinryaku
(Shin Nihon Shuppansha, 1997), p. 355.