Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (374 page)

40.
Yasuda Tsuneo, “Sh
ch
tenn
sei to minsh
ishiki: sono shis
teki kanren o ch
shin ni,” in
Rekishigaku kenky
621 (July 1991), p. 36.

41.
Yamada,
Dai gensui Sh
wa tenn
, p. 306. The last remnants of the army and navy ministries—the First and Second Demobilization Bureaus—were closed down in Oct. 1947.

42.
Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
wa tenn
6, senry
, pp. 167–68. He cites the reaction to the Nov. 8 press report of antiwar activist and writer Watanabe Kiyoshi, who had survived the sinking of the battleship
Musashi
.

43.
Kido K
ichi kankei bunsho
(Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1966), pp. 139–40. Kido adds, “However, when the train arrived at Numazu Station, the station [had been] burned down and a temporary hut stood in its place. A crowd was standing by the fence looking at us. Overall the mood was peaceful. Some bowed their heads; others smiled. It was a very natural scene and before I knew it, the six minutes…had passed.”

44.
Kinoshita,
Sokkin nisshi
, p. 64.

45.
Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
wa tenn
,
p. 169, referring to the
Asahi shinbun
of Nov. 24.