Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (380 page)

70.
“S
kan no kotoba,” in
Shins
(Mar. 1, 1946), p. 3.

71.
“Tenn
wa hoki de aru,” in
Shins
, Sept. 1, 1947, inside front cover. The reason offered was because “everywhere the emperor goes, even in deep mine shafts or the corners of the towns through which his entourage passes, the walls of the buildings are cleaned with brooms and instantaneously the towns and villages are beautified.”

72.
The Anderton memorandum to “The Commander in Chief” through “Military Secretary” is in the Fellers papers.

73.
FRUS, Diplomatic Papers 1946: The Far East
, vol. 8, p. 396.

74.
The Matsumoto draft merely altered some of the phraseology of the Meiji constitution while retaining the authority and powers of the emperor and the system of separate Imperial House Law. Worse still, it reduced the rights and increased the duties of “subjects,” and, except for subjecting the war-and treaty-making authority of the emperor to the consent of a permanent Diet committee, failed to strengthen substantially the power of the Diet. See
Political Reorientation of Japan: September 1945 to September 1948. Report of Government Section, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
(Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1949), pp. 98–101.

75.
The phrase “In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph” was added by Ashida Hitoshi in Diet deliberations.

76.
Watanabe Osamu, “Sengo kaikaku to h
: tenn
sei kokka wa dat
sareta ka,” in Hasegawa Masayasu et al., eds.,
K
za, kakumei to h
, dai sankan, shimin kakumei to Nihon-h
(Nihon Hy
ronsha, 1994), pp. 126–29.

77.
Watanabe, “Sengo kaikaku to h
: tenn
sei kokka wa dat
sareta ka,” p. 227.