Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (194 page)

20.
Sugiura Shigetake,
Rinri goshink
s
an
.

21.
Ibid., pp. 1055–61. Wilhelm II, an emotionally unstable monarch who had recently aspired to be the dictator of Europe, resided in exile in the Netherlands. As a political and symbolic leader, he personified not only the forces of his times but the historic weaknesses of the German people: their glorified, megalomaniacal image of themselves as a people who deserved to rule all of Europe, their deep insecurities, and their radical anti-Semitism. (See Thomas A. Kohut,
Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership
[Oxford University Press, 1991], p. 178.)

22.
Ibid., pp. 958–64.

23.
Ibid., p. 122.

24.
Ibid., p. 581.

25.
Ibid., p. 881. Anti-Japanese racial discrimination was particularly strong in the United States and its Territory of Hawaii, where Japanese were denied the right to be naturalized or to own land.

26.
Ibid., p. 884.

27.
Herbert P. Bix,
Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884
(Yale University Press, 1986), pp. 81, 112, 175.

28.
Ibid., p. 887.

29.
Nezu,
Tenn
to Sh
washi, j
, p. 16. Nezu writes: “It would have been a miracle if, after having received in his young mind for seven years this sort of education, [Hirohito] had not become a militarist. Only a person like Sugiura would have had the courage to give this sort of conservative education in an age of rising democracy.”

30.
Shiratori Kurakichi, “Shina kodensetsu no kenky
,” in
T
y
jih
131 (Aug. 1909), pp. 38–44.

31.
Tokoro Isao, “Sh
wa tenn
ga mananda ‘kokushi' ky
kasho,” in
Bungei
shunj
(Feb. 1990), p. 133. My next few paragraphs mainly summarize Tokoro's very useful account.