Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (320 page)

89.
Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
wa tenn
, dai nikan, kaisen
(Ryokuf
Shuppan, 1988), p. 265.

90.
Nobutake Ike, trans. and ed.,
Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences
(Stanford University Press, 1967), p. 204; James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1970), p. 155.

91.
Kido K
ichi nikki, ge
, p. 921. Having registered in his diary the imperial conference of Nov. 5, Kido could only play down its significance when later questioned about it by American investigators after the war. T
j
repeatedly denied the very existence of the Nov. 5 conference. When finally cornered, he lied again about its contents. Hirohito simply omitted all mention of it in his “Monologue.” The prosecutors at the Tokyo tribunal had great difficulty grasping the full import of this key meeting. See: “Case File No. 20, T
j
Hideki.” in Awaya, Yoshida, eds.,
Kokusai kensatsu kyoku (IPS) jinmon ch
sho, dai gokan
(Nihon Tosho Cent
, 1993), pp. 108, 134; and the T
j
interrogations of March 12 and 15, 1946, in
Kokusai kensatsu kyoku (IPS) jinmonch
sho, dai gokan
.

92.
Yoshida,
Nihonjin no sens
kan,
pp. 178–79;
Senshi s
sho: Rikukaigun nenpy
, fu-heigo, y
go no kaisetsu
(1980), p. 85.