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49.
Takeyama, pp. 131–34. CIE-GHQ responded by altering the format and changing the style to accommodate Japanese listeners. The pilot for a new, toned-down version went on the air in late January 1946. Called “Now It Can Be Told—Question Box,” it was later renamed “Truth Box,” and ran from Feb. 17 to Nov. 29, 1946. After further modifications this show too was renamed “Question Box,” a program of questions and answers concerning the Pacific war, labor unions, the new constitution, and school integration. In Jan. 1948 “Question Box” became NHK's daily “Information Hour.” See Takeyama, p. 140.

50.
Asahi shinbun
, Aug. 30, 1945, cited in Yoshida,
Nihonjin no sens
kan
, pp. 26–27.

51.
Mainichi Shimbun,
Sept. 5, 1945, quoted in
kubo Genji,
The Problems of
the Emperor System in Postwar Japan
(Nihon Taiheiy
Mondai Ch
sakai, 1948), p. 9. Higashikuni's speech is reproduced in Kokkai Hyakunen-shi Kank
kai, ed.,
Nihon kokkai hyakunen shi, ch
kan
(Kokkai Shiry
Hensankai, 1987), pp. 583–93.

52.
Yoshida,
Nihonjin no sens
kan
, p. 27.

53.
For discussion of the Nov. 5, 1945, policy document, see Bix, “The Sh
wa Emperor's ‘Monologue'…,” pp. 306–7.

54.
Kisaka Junichir
, “Ajia-taiheiy
sens
no rekishiteki seikaku o megutte,”
Nenp
: Nihon gendaishi, s
kan, sengo goj
nen no rekishiteki kensh
(Azuma Shuppan, 1995), p. 9.