Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (286 page)

57.
Et
Genkur
then informed fellow reserve general Mazaki Jinzabur
, who wrote in his diary on Jan. 28, 1938: “Military order and discipline have collapsed. Unless they are reestablished, we will be unable to fight a serious war. It is almost unbearable to hear the stories of robbery, rape, and pillaging.” Cited in Kasahara,
Nankin jiken
, p. 212.

58.
Yoshida Yutaka, “Nankin jihen to kokusai h
,” in Yoshida Yutaka,
Gendai shigaku to sens
sekinin
(Aoki Shoten, 1997), p. 120.

59.
Shigemitsu Mamoru,
Zoku Shigemitsu Mamoru shuki
(Ch
K
ronsha, 1988), p. 295.

60.
“Records of the U.S. Dept. of State Relating to Political Relations between the U.S. and Japan, 1930–1939,” reel no. 3, file no. 711.94/1184, Grew's review of developments up to March 18, 1938.

61.
“Hidaka Shinrokur
,” in Awaya Kentar
, Yoshida Yutaka, eds.,
Kokusai kensatsukyoku (IPS) jinmon ch
sho, dai 42 kan
(Nihon Tosho Sent
, 1993), pp. 79–98. Hallett Abend, the
New York Times
correspondent in China at the time of the “rape,” wrote in 1943 that an unnamed “high civilian Japanese official who had made a personal investigation of the atrocities” told him that he had had a “private conversation with the Emperor” in which he informed Hirohito of the details. Abend's informant may have been Hidaka Shinrokur
. Abend has him saying:
I was accorded the very rare honor of a summons to the palace and of more than two hours of private conversation with the Emperor…. When I entered the great hall of audience, he ordered all attendants to retire to the doors, beyond hearing. Then he had a pillow placed for me, and I spent two hours on my knees at his feet, while he bent over and had me whisper into his ear all that I knew about the events following the capture of Nanking. I kept back nothing, and he asked many searching questions.
Abend's overdramatization of this audience, with Hirohito bending over while the kneeling informant whispers in his ear, appears false, more Chinese than Japanese. In other respects his account seems credible. In his deposition to the IPS, given on May 1, 1946, Hidaka admitted knowing Abend from his days in Shanghai. At the Tokyo trial, he testified for the defense on behalf of Gen. Matsui Iwane but was not questioned about his earlier deposition implicating the emperor. See Abend,
Pacific Charter: Our Destiny in Asia
(Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943), pp. 38–39;
Kyokut
kokusai gunji saiban sokkiroku, dai rokkan
(Y
sh
d
Shoten, 1968), dai 210 go, pp. 270–73.