Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (212 page)

16.
Watanabe Osamu, “Tenn
sei kokka chitsujo no rekishiteki kenky
josetsu,” in
Shakai Kagaku Kenky u
30, no. 5 (Mar. 1977), p. 259.

17.
The Imperial Household Ministry announced on Nov. 21, 1921, that soon after the Taish
emperor's birth he had contracted an illness similar to cerebral meningitis and from around 1914–15 “he not only lost a decent posture and walked unsteadily, but his speech also faltered.” Shikama K
suke,
Jij
bukan nikki
, Nov. 25, 1921, as cited in Yasuda Hiroshi, “Kindai tenn
sei ni okeru kenryoku to ken'i—Taish
demokurashii-ki nok
satsu” in
Bunka hy
ron
357 (Oct. 1990), p. 186.

18.
Asukai Masamichi,
Meiji taitei
(Chikuma Shob
, 1989), p. 287; Watanabe Ikujir
,
K
shitsu shinron
(Waseda Daigaku Shuppanbu, 1929), p. 320.

19.
MNN
, pp. 68–69.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Wakabayashi Masahiro, “1923-nen t
g
Taiwan gy
kei to ‘naichi ench
shugi'” in
Iwanami k
za, 2 teikoku t
chi no k
z
, kindai Nihon to shokuminchi
(Iwanami Shoten, 1992), p. 108.