Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (319 page)

83.
Yamada Akira,
Daigensui Sh
wa tenn
(Shin Nihon Shuppansha, 1994), p. 156.

84.
Ibid., p. 156, citing
Sh
wa j
roku nen j
s
kankei shorui tsuzuri, dai ikkan
. At Okehazama in Central Honsh
in 1560 the first of the great unifiers of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, defeated a much larger opponent and opened the path to a new national hegemony. The penchant for discussing their modern “total war” with analogies from feudal and prefeudal history was widely shared among Japanese officers.

85.
Kido K
ichi nikki, ge
, p. 921.

86.
Kimitsu sens
nisshi
, entry of Nov. 4, 1941, p. 194. For their questions and answers, see
Sugiyama memo, j
, pp. 388–406.

87.
Senshi s
sho: Daihon'ei rikugunbu: Dai T
'A sens
kaisen keii (5
) (1974), pp. 338–39.

88.
Fujiwara,
Sh
wa tenn
no j
gonen sens
, p. 129.