Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (349 page)

K
ronsha version of
Hosokawa nikki
.

14.
Domon,
Tatakau tenn
, p. 192.

15.
Haisen no kiroku: sanb
honbu shoz
, Meiji hyakunen-shi s
sho, dai 38 kan
(Hara Shob
, 1967), pp. 230–31.

16.
“Renritsu ky
ryoku naikaku, Koiso, Yonai,” January to February 1945, notebook 6, folder 1B–74, in the Shigemitsu papers held at the Kensei Kinenkan in Tokyo; also see Takeda Tomoki, “Shigemitsu Mamoru no senji gaik
ninshiki to seiji senryaku: kyuch
, tenn
to no kakawari ni oite,” in
Nenp
kindai Nihon kenky
20: ky
ch
k
shitsu to seiji
(Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1998), p. 197. Shigemitsu's handwritten notations, scrawled right after the audience, make clear that the thought of the two men also went back to the kaiser and the collapse of the German Empire.