Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (304 page)

66.
Tokyo nichi nichi shinbun, y
kan rinji
(Nov. 11, 1940). For English translations of Hirohito's messages see
The Oriental Economist
7, no. 11 (Nov. 1940), p. 640.

67.
Antony Best
, Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor
:
Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936–41
(Routledge, 1995), p. 130.

68.
Edward S. Miller,
War Plan Orange: the U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945
(U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1991), 269–70. Roosevelt approved the plan's premise in November 1940, and also “assented to secret talks with the British to cast it into a combined plan for use when the nations became combat allies [p. 270].” Joint Anglo-American war planning began in early 1941.

C
HAPTER
11
P
ROLOGUE TO
P
EARL
H
ARBOR

1.
Moriyama Atsushi,
Nichi-Bei kaisen no seiji katei
(Yoshikawa K
bunkan, 1998), p. 164.

2.
Mori Shigeki, “Kokusaku kettei katei no heny
: dainiji, daisanji Konoe naikaku no kokusaku kettei o meguru ‘kokumu' to ‘t
sui.'”
Nihonshi kenky
395 (July 1995), pp. 58, 59, 60.

3.
Fujiwara,
Sh
wa tenn
no j
gonen sens
, p. 97.

4.
Hata Ikuhiko, ed.,
Rikukaigun s
g
jiten
(Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1991), p. 497.

5.
Mori Shigeki, “Yamada Akira,
Daigensui Sh
wa tenn
,” in Tokyo Rekishi Kagaku Kenky
kai,
Jinmin no rekishigaku
124 (July 1995), p. 27.