Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (399 page)

38.
Ibid., p. 253.

39.
Ibid., p. 244.

40.
On the Shikoku tour, see Suzuki Masao, pp. 295–324.

41.
Yasuda Tsuneo, “Sh
ch
tenn
sei to minsh
ishiki: sono shis
teki kanren o ch
shin ni,” pp. 32–33; Yoshimi, “Senry
ki Nihon no minsh
ishiki: sens
sekininron o megutte,” pp. 94–99.

42.
The Soviet indictment grew out of the findings of the military trial of Kwantung Army commander Gen. Yamada Otoz
and eleven other Japanese at Khabarovsk in Dec. 1949. The Soviet report alluded to eighteen volumes of evidence accumulated by the court, including “secret newsreels depicting operations” of the bacteriological warfare Units 731 and 100.

43.
FRUS 1950,
vol. 6,
East Asia and the Pacific
, pp. 1195–96.

44.
Ibid., pp. 1236–37.

45.
Toyoshita,
Ampo j
yaku no seiritsu
(Iwanami Shinsho), pp. 165-86;
sono seisei to tenkai
, p. 116; John G. Roberts, “The ‘Japan Crowd' and the Zaibatsu Restoration,” in
Japan Interpreter
12, no. 3–4 (Summer 1979), pp. 402–3; Howard B. Schonberger,
Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945–1952
(Kent State University Press, 1989), pp. 151–56. In mid-August 1950, at the request of Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman, Packenham and members of Hirohito's entourage committed Hirohito's “oral message” to writing. Toyoshita,
Ampo j
yaku no ronri: sono seisei to tenkai
, p. 116, Schonberger,
Aftermath of War
, p. 156.

46.
Toyoshita,
Ampo j
yaku no seiritsu
, p.47; Ronald W. Pruessen,
John Foster Dulles: The Road to Power
(Free Press, 1982), p. 473 .