Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (341 page)

101.
Ibid., p. 33.

102.
Ibid., p. 37.

103.
Nihon Heiki K
gy
kai, ed.,
Rikusen heiki s
ran
(Tosho Shuppansha, 1977). pp. 540.

104.
TN, dai nanakan
, pp. 514–15, 517.

105.
Hosokawa Morisada,
J
h
tenn
ni tassezu, j
: Hosokawa nikki
(Isobe Shobo, 1953), pp. 117–20.

106.
For the text see
Mainichi Shinbun
, Mar. 19, 1995. T
j
had this rescript in his possession on the day of his botched suicide attempt, Sept. 11, 1945.

107.
Yamada Akira, K
ketsu Atsushi,
Ososugita seidan: Sh
wa tenn
no sens
shid
to sens
sekinin
(Sh
wa Shuppan, 1991), pp. 132–33; Leon V. Sigal,
Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945
(Cornell University Press, 1988), p. 31.