Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (385 page)

8.
Toyoda Kumao,
Sens
saiban yoroku
(Taiseisha Kabushiki Kaisha, 1986), p. 170.

9.
Takada Makiko, “Shinshutsu Shiry
kara mita ‘Sh
wa tenn
dokuhakuroku,'” in
Seiji keizai shigaku
299 (Mar. 1991), p. 41. The Mizota documents were first published in Toyoda,
Sens
saiban yoroku
, pp. 171–72.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Takada, “Shinshutsu Shiry
kara mita ‘Sh
wa tenn
dokuhakuroku,'” p. 42. Fellers is referring here to Benjamin V. Cohen, a New Deal lawyer who later served as assistant to Secretary of State Byrnes.

12.
The espousal, by people like Fellers, of anti-Semitic views to Japanese officials, as evidenced in the Mizota notes, was not innocuous. Such behavior
allowed the wartime anti-Semitism that Japanese governments had fostered in order to ensure ideological conformity against the West to persist. To this day anti-Semitism without Jews remains a visible element of continuity between late imperial and present-day Japan.

13.
“Moto kyokut
kokusai gunji saiban bengonin Shiobara Tokisabur
kara no ch
shush
(dai ikkai),” July 4, 1961, in
Kyokut
kokusai gunji saiban kankei ch
sh
shiry
(Yasukuni Kaik
Bunko Shoz
, Inoue Tadao Shiry
, n.p., n.d.). This is the stenographic record of Shiobara's questioning by officials of the Research Department of the Ministry of Justice.