Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (234 page)

52.
One procession (May 28 to June 9, 1929) was to the Kansai region (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto); another to Shizuoka prefecture from May 18 to June 3, 1930: a third to Gumma, Tochigi, and Saitama prefectures in Nov. 1934, and a fourth to Hokkaido from Sept. 24 to Oct. 12, 1936.

53.
Sakamoto K
jir
,
Sh
ch
tenn
sei e no pafuoomansu: Sh
wa-ki no tenn
gy
k
no hensen
(Kamakawa Shuppansha, 1989), pp. 4–5; Dai Kasumi Kai, ed.,
Naimu sh
shi, dai sankan
(Chih
Zaimu Ky
kai, 1971), p. 770. Nara linked the 1928 revision of the Peace Preservation Law to the government's fear of direct appeals to the emperor while on tour. See “Nara Takeji kais
roku (s
an),” p. 367.