Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (334 page)

59.
Right after the imperial headquarters conference ended, Hirohito reportedly told Sugiyama, “I was thinking of bestowing an imperial rescript if they could recapture Guadalcanal. What do you think? The officers and men fought hard and suffered. So why not grant them an imperial rescript. If I do grant one, when would be the best time?” The rescript was granted on January 5, 1943, but not publicized. See Boei Kensh
jo Senshishitsu, “Senshi shiry
riku dainig
(Nant
h
men sakusen shiry
):
Sanada J
ichir
sh
sh
shuki
, June 25, 1956,” p. 19.

60.
Ibid., pp. 18–19. These are Sanada's handwritten notes, based on his diary, of the circumstances leading up to the imperial decision to withdraw from Guadalcanal.

61.
Yamada,
Daigensui Sh
wa tenn
, pp. 213–14.

62.
Charles W. Koburger, Jr.,
Pacific Turning Point: The Solomons Campaign, 1942–1943
(Praeger, 1995), p. 75.

63.
J
nikki
, p. 235; Koburger,
Pacific Turning Point
, p. 78.

64.
Senshi s
sho: Nant
h
men kaigun sakusen (3): Ga totesshugo
(1976), p. 106.