Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (368 page)

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Authors: Herbert P. Bix

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C
HAPTER
14
A M
ONARCHY
R
EINVENTED

1.
Reprinted in
Bungei shunj
, tokubetsug
:
inaru Sh
wa
(Mar. 1989), p. 364.

2.
Hirohito's letter to Akihito, dated Mar. 6, 1945, in ibid., p. 362.

3.
Tsurumi Shunsuke, Nakagawa Roppei, eds.,
Tenn
hyakuwa, ge
(Chikuma Bunko, 1989), pp. 39–41. This letter was released to the nation's press by the Ky
d
News Agency on Apr. 15, 1986. The cabinet of Nakasone Yasuhiro was then preparing for the sixtieth anniversary of Hirohito's reign while conducting a campaign celebrating the centennial of the Meiji Restoration. See Sakamoto K
jir
,
Sh
ch
tenn
sei e no paf
mansu: Sh
wa-ki no tenn
gy
k
no hensen
(Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1989), p. 65;
Asahi Evening News
, Apr. 15, 1986.

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