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67.
Maehara T
ru, “‘T
suiken dokuritsu' riron no gunnai de no hatten keika” in
Gunji shigaku
23, no. 3 (Jan. 1998), pp. 18–19.

68.
Nagai,
Kindai Nihon no gunbu to seiji
, p. 255.

69.
Maehara, “‘T
suiken dokuritsu' riron no gunnai de hatten keika,” pp. 27–28.

70.
In February 1922 the General Staff Office produced a top-secret study titled “Concerning the Independence of the Right of Supreme Command,” which may have been the first official document whose title included the term “independence of the right of supreme command.” See Maehara, p. 30.

71.
Quoted in Maehara, p. 34; also, p. 40, n. 50.

72.
Tanaka Hiromi, “Kyoz
no gunshin T
g
Heihachir
,” in
This Is Yomiuri
(Sept. 1993), p. 240.

73.
“Nara Takeji kais
roku (s
an),” pp. 357–58.

74.
Ibid., p. 355;
Jiji shinbun
(Aug. 10, 1925).

75.
“Nara Takeji kais
roku (s
an),” p. 355.

76.
Asano Kazuo, “Taish
ki ni okeru rikugun shokono shakai ninshiki to rikugun no seishin ky
iku:
Kaik
sha kiji
no ronsetsu kiji no bunseki,” in Nakamura Katsunori, ed.,
Kindai Nihon seiji no shos
: jidai ni yoru tenkai to k
satsu
(Kei
Ts
shin, 1989), p. 455.