Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (339 page)

91.
In his Jan. 5, 1944, talk to young staff officers in Nanking, Prince Mikasa boldly criticized the venality, corruption, and lack of humility of Japanese army officers. He urged that they change their ways and give full support to “the national government so that it can implement…policies for the sake of 400 million Chinese people.” His prepared text, in a question-and-answer form, allowed him to register also the facile, anti-Semitic bigotry of his fellow staff officers, and to call attention to Japanese racism and Anglo-American policies toward East Asia. See Mikasa no miya Nobuhito [Wakasugi sanb
], “Shina jihen ni taisuru Nihonjin toshite no naisei [bakury
y
],” in
This is Yomiuri
(Aug. 1994), pp. 63, 65, 67, 69, 71.

92.
Akashi Yoji, “Taiheiy
sens
makki ni okeru Nihon gunbu no Yenan seiken to no heiwa mosaku: sono haikei,” in Gunji Shigakkai, ed.,
Dai niji sekai taisen (3): sh
sen
(Kinseisha, 1995), pp. 177–78. Field commanders fiercely resisted implementation of the policy change.

93.
Senshi s
sho: Inpaaru sakusen, Biruma no b
ei
(1968), pp. 151–59.

94.
Hara Takeshi, Yasuoka Akio, eds.,
Nihon rikukaigun jiten
(Shin Jimbutsu
raisha, 1997), pp. 101–2, and comments by Yamada Akira in Fujiwara et
al.,
Tettei kensh
: Sh
wa tenn
‘dokuhakuroku'
(Tokyo:
tsuki Shoten, 1991), p. 96. The Allies suffered approximately eighteen thousand casualties in the Imphal campaign.