Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (307 page)

12.
Yamada, “Sh
wa tenn
no sens
shid
: j
h
sh
ka to sakusen kanyo,” p. 19.

13.
Imoto Kumao,
Sakusen nisshi de tsuzuru Dai T
'A sens
(Fuy
Shob
, 1979), pp. 37–38.

14.
Haslam,
The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933–41
, p. 136.

15.
At the railway station just before his departure, Hitler is alleged to have forewarned Matsuoka: “When you get back to Japan, you cannot report to your emperor that a conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union is out of the question.” Paul Schmidt,
Hitler's Interpreter
(New York: Macmillan, 1951), p. 231.

16.
Cited in Borisu Suravinsukii,
K
sh
Nisso ch
ritsu j
yaku: k
kaisareta Roshia gaimush
kimitsu bunsho
(Iwanami Shoten, 1996), pp. 114–16.