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51.
Sentenced to death in late 1933, Sagoya, along with fellow murderer and Shinto lay priest Inoue Nissh
, was pardoned in Hirohito's great amnesty of 1940. Sagoya served only six years in prison; Inoue served eight. See
NH
, p. 59, and
Konsaisu Nihon jinmei jiten, kaiteiban
(Sanseid
, 1991), p. 565.

52.
Yamada Akira,
Gunbi kakuch
no kindaishi: Nihongun no boch
to h
kai
(Yoshikawa K
bunkan, 1997), p. 10.

53.
Masuda, “Sait
Makoto kyokoku itchi naikakuron,” p. 247.

54.
Ibid., pp. 247–248.

55.
Otabe Y
ji, “Kaisetsu: Mansh
jihen to tenn
, ky
ch
,” p. 256, citing
KYN, dai gokan
, p. 103.

56.
Cited in Seki Hiroharu, “The Manchurian Incident, 1931,” in James W. Morley, ed.,
Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, 1928–1932. Selected translations from Taiheiy
sens
e no michi: kaisen gaik
shi
(Columbia University Press, 1984), p. 177.