Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (389 page)

36.
“Opening Statement” by Keenan, in
Trial of Japanese War Criminals: Documents
(Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1946), p. 1.

37.
Brackman,
The Other Nuremberg,
p. 133; Asahi Shinbun H
tei Kishadan,
Tokyo saiban, j
(Tokyo Saiban Kank
kai, 1963), pp. 258–60.

38.
Kyokut
kokusai gunji saiban sokkiroku
, No. 20, (June 27, 1946), p. 12; Brackman,
The Other Nuremberg
, p. 134. During the defense phase of the trial, in September 1947, General Araki also rebutted Inukai Takeru's testimony. See
TWCT, Vol. 12: Transcript of the Proceedings in Open Session Pages 27,839 to 30,420
, pp. 28, 131–32.

39.
Brackman,
The Other Nuremberg
, p. 135;
Kyokut
kokusai gunji saiban sokkiroku
21, June 28, 1946, p. 3.

40.
Harries and Harries,
Sheathing the Sword
, p. 157.

41.
TWCT, Vol. 8: Proceedings of the Tribunal/Pages 17542–20,105
, p. 17, 662. Fifty years after the end of World War II, eight volumes of these rejected defense documents were published in Japanese. Tokyo Saiban Shiry
Kank
kai, ed.,
Tokyo saiban kyakka miteishutsu bengogawa Shiry
, vols. 1–8 (Kokusho Kank
kai, 1995). Vol. 1 contains the
Nippon Times
summary of Stimson's famous
Harper's
article.

42.
Brackman,
The Other Nuremberg
, p. 284.

43.
Ibid.

44.
TWCT
,
Vol. 13: Transcript of the Proceedings in Open Session Pages 30,421 to 32,971
, p. 31,310.

45.
Asahi Shinbun H
tei Kishadan,
Tokyo saiban, ch
(Tokyo Saiban Kank
kai, 1963), p. 8; “False Answers and Criticism of the Senior Statesmen,”
Asahi shinbun
(Oct. 23, 1947).

46.
Kyokut
kokusai gunji saiban sokkiroku
,
dai hakkan
, No. 342, December 26, 1947 (Matsudo Shoten, 1968), p. 8.