Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (173 page)

12.
Both the oligarchs and Emperor Meiji believed that the emperor's “right of supreme military command” did not require for its exercise the advice of any minister of state. From their viewpoint the essence of the Restoration was precisely the revival of the emperor's position as a military monarch.

13.
Kimijima Kazuhiko, “Shokuminchi ‘teikoku' e no michi,” in Asada Ky
ji, ed.,
Kindai Nihon no kiseki 10, ‘Teikoku' Nihon to Ajia
(Yoshikawa K
bunkan, 1994), pp. 60–61. The fighting on Taiwan lasted for more than a decade and cost 9,592 Japanese combatant deaths.

C
HAPTER
1
T
HE
B
OY
,
THE
F
AMILY, AND THE
M
EIJI
L
EGACIES

1.
Kojima Noboru,
Tenn
1: wakaki shinn
(Bungei Shunj
sha, 1980, 1989), p. 12.

2.
Kawahara Toshiaki,
Tenn
Hirohito no Sh
washi
(Bungei Shunj
, 1983), pp. 10–11; Hosaka Masayasu,
Chichibu no miyato Sh
wa tenn
(Bungei Shunj
, 1989), p. 21; Nezu Masashi,
Tenn
to Sh
washi, j
(San Ichi Shinsha, 1988), p. 11.