Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (395 page)

7.
Kinoshita,
Sokkin nisshi
, p. 215.

8.
“Inada Sh
ichi, ‘Bib
roku' yori bassui,” entry of August 14, 1946.
Hakusukinoe
(in
A.D
663) was a naval battle between Japanese warriors coming to the aid of the Kudara Kingdom in the southern part of Korea, around Pusan, against Chinese and Korean forces. Defeat forced the Japanese to flee the peninsula and led to domestic reform.

9.
Yamazumi Makimi, “Sengo ky
iku wa seik
shita ka,” in
Nihon kindaishi no kyoz
to jitsuz
4, k
fuku—Sh
wa no sh
en
(
tsuki Shoten, 1989), pp. 272–76.

10.
Earlier MacArthur had slowed the momentum of the democratization movement from below and given encouragement to the defendants in the Tokyo Trial by banning a national general strike planned for February 1, 1947.

11.
Matsui was Hirohito's interpreter for his 8th through 11th meetings with MacArthur, and for his two meetings with Dulles on Feb. 10 and April 22, 1951. See
Sankei shinbun
, Jan. 6, l994; Shind
Eiichi, “Bunkatsu sareta ry
do,”
Sekai
(April 1979);
Pacific Stars & Stripes
(May 7, 1947).

12.
Cited in Arasaki Moriteru,
Okinawa d
jidaishi, dai gokan: “datsuhoku ny
nan” no shis
1991–1992
(Tokyo: 1993); also see Nakamura Masanori, “Kenp
dai ky
j
to tenn
sei,” in
Gekkan, Gunshuku mondai shiry
(May 1998).