Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (375 page)

46.
Takeyama Akiko, “Senry
ka no h
s
: ‘Shins
wa k
d
,'” in Minami Hiroshi, Shakai Shinri Kenky
jo, eds.,
Zoku, Sh
wa bunka 1945–1989
(Keis
Sh
b
1990), p. 121;
Asahi shinbun
(
y
kan
), Dec. 8, 1945.

47.
John Dunning,
Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925–1976
(Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976), pp. 393–96.

48.
Takeyama, “Senry
ka no h
s
: ‘Shins
wa k
d
,'” pp. 105–6; see also Mark Gayn,
Japan Diary
(William Sloane Associates, 1948), p. 6. After watching a rehearsal of the show, Gayn wrote (p. 7):
The only thing that disturbed me in the broadcasts, as well as in the series of twenty [
sic
] newspaper articles starting tomorrow, was their politics. They described the timid Premier Kijuro Shidehara as a courageous foe of militarism; they concentrated their fire mainly on men of the sword, to the exclusion of such obvious war criminals as the emperor or heads of the super-trusts; they naively interpreted, or even distorted, some of the recent Japanese history.