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6.
By 1959 their number had declined to 58,000; in 1990 there were still 47,770 American troops on Japanese soil. See Muroyama Yoshimasa,
Nichi-Bei anpo taisei, j
(Y
hikaku, 1992), p. 243; Ara Takashi, “Saigunbi to zai-Nichi Beigun,” in
Iwanami k
za: Nihon ts
shi, dai nijukkan: gendai 1
(Iwanami Shoten, 1995), p. 169.

7.
Yoshida,
Nihonjin no sens
kan
, p. 82.

8.
Yoshioka Yoshinori, “Sengo Nihon seij
to A-ky
senpan,” in
Bunka hy
ron
372 (Jan. l992), p. 114. Shigemitsu, released on parole in late l950, went on to become president of the Progressive Party, vice president of the LDP, vice prime minister and foreign minister in the Hatoyama Ichir
cabinet (Dec. l954 to Dec. l956). Kaya, paroled in 1955, won election to the Diet five times, starting in 1958, and entered the Ikeda Hayato cabinet in 1960, rising to the post of justice minister in 1963.

9.
Yoshida,
Nihonjin no sens
kan
, p. 17; Yoshida, “Sens
no kioku,” in
Iwanami koza, sekaishi 25: sens
to heiwa, mirai e no messeeji
(Iwanami Shoten, 1997), p. 99.

10.
Tanaka Nobumasa,
Sens
no kioku: sono inpei no k
z
, kokuritsu sens
memoriaru o t
shite
(Ryokuf
Shuppan, 1997), p. 60.