Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (340 page)

95.
Rekishi Ky
ikusha Ky
gikai, ed.,
Maboroshi dewa nakatta hondo kessen
(K
bunken, 1995), pp. 16–17.

96.
Ibid., p. 17.

97.
American losses on Saipan were 3,426 marines killed and 13,099 wounded. The stubborn Japanese defense gave rise to the belief among strategic planners in Washington that it would “cost approximately one American killed and several wounded to exterminate seven Japanese soldiers.” Many American planners thereafter used this “Saipan ratio” for making “strategic-level casualty projections in the Pacific.” On this point, see D. M. Giangreco, “Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan, 1945–1946: Planning and Policy Implications,” in
Journal of Military History
61, no. 3 (July 1997), p. 535. I am indebted to the author for bringing his important article to my attention.

98.
Senshi s
sho: Daihon'ei kaigunbu, reng
kantai (6): dai sandankai sakusen k
ki
(1970), p. 21, citing “Gunreibu dai ichi buch
Nakazawa Tasuku sh
sh
gy
mu nisshi” (unpublished).

99.
Ibid.

100.
Senshi s
sho: Daihon'ei kaigunbu, reng
kantai (6): dai sandankai sakusen k
ki,
p. 22, citing the unpublished recollections of Comm. Fujimori Yasuo, a staff officer in the operations section of the First Department who had worked on the Saipan recapture plan.