Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (235 page)

54.
Naimush
-shi, dai sankan
, pp. 761–62.

55.
Ibid., pp. 761–63.

56.
Yasumaru,
Kindai tenn
z
no keisei
, pp. 289–90.

57.
Jitsugy
no Nihon z
kan: gotaiten kinen shashing
(Nov. 1928), p. 57.

58.
Hoshino Teruoki, “Tairei no shogi oyobi sono igi,” in
Jitsugy
no Nihon
(Nov. 1928), p. 69.

59.
During 1927–28, the initiative in promoting the divine and militaristic image of the emperor came directly from the palace, and from key figures in the court milieu and civil bureaucracy. They began the proselytization of the Japanese spirit and gave new life to extremism originating from within orthodoxy.

60.
Nakajima,
Tenn
no daigawari to k
kumin,
pp. 123–24.

61.
From “The Great Enthronement Ceremony and National Morality: Strive to Promote the Way of the Father and the Mother,” an editorial in
“Yokohama b
eki shimp
,” July 14, 1928, cited in Nakajima,
Tenn
no daigawari to kokumin
, p. 125.

62.
Ibid., p. 128.

63.
Ibid.

64.
Ibid., pp. 129–30.

65.
Ibid., p. 129, from “Young Japan and Its Wordly Mission,” Dec. 1, 1928.

66.
Ibid., p. 130.

67.
D. C. Holtom,
Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions
(University of Chicago Press, 1943), pp. 23–24.

68.
Yasumaru,
Kindai tenn
z
no keisei
, pp. 12–13.