Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (351 page)

22.
In his “Monologue” Hirohito claimed that General Koiso “lacked common sense” for trying to negotiate peace through a person who was acting behind the back of the Nanking government. The incident revealed Hirohito's rigid adherence to rules of procedure as well as confusion over how to conduct negotiations with China. See
STD
, pp. 106–7; Shi Yuanhua, “Nitch
sens
k
ki ni okeru Nihon to
Ch
Mei seifu no ‘b
wa' k
saku,” translated by It
Nobuyuki in Gunji Shigakkai, ed.,
Nitch
sens
no shos
(Kinseisha, 1997), pp. 294–95; Sait
Haruko, “Nihon no tai-So sh
sen gaik