Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (352 page)

,” in
Shiron
(Tokyo Joshi Daigaku) 41 (Mar. 1988), p. 54.

23.
Kido K
ichi nikki, ge
, pp. 1208–9;
e Shinobu,
Gozen kaigi: Sh
wa tenn
jugokai no seidan
(Ch
K
ronsha 1991), p. 235. June 8 was also the day on which Hirohito told his chief aide-de-camp that he would not leave Tokyo, thereby setting at naught army plans to build a rock fortress for him in Matsushiro, Nagano prefecture.

24.
Kido K
ichi nikki, ge
, p. 1210; Hata Ikuhiko,
Hirohito tenn
itsutsu no ketsu-
dan
(K
dansha, 1984), p. 46, citing the diary of army aide-de-camp Ogata Kenichi.

25.
Kido K
ichi nikki, ge
, pp. 1212–13.

26.
Yamada, K
ketsu,
Ososugita seidan
, pp. 204–6.

27.
John Ray Skates,
The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb
(University of South Carolina Press, 1994), p. 102. An English translation of the Ketsu-G
plan can be found in
Reports of General MacArthur: Japanese Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area
, vol. 2, part 2 (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1966), pp. 601–7.

28.
Matsuura S
z
,
Tenn
to masu komi
(Aoki Shoten, 1975), pp. 3–14.