Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (345 page)

126.
Domon,
Tatakau tenn
, p. 192.

127.
Ibid., p. 193.

128.
Ibid.

129.
Senshi s
sho: Daihon'ei rikugunbu (10) Sh
wa nij
nen hachigatsu made
, p. 128.

130.
Ibid., pp. 211–12. On May 9 Hirohito shocked the Army Operations Section by refusing General Umezu's request to place the Seventeenth
Area Army in Korea under the command of the Kwantung Army. Such a move, he believed, would destroy the distinction between Manchuria, a foreign country, and Korea, “the national territory.” Ibid., pp. 224–25.

C
HAPTER
13
D
ELAYED
S
URRENDER

1.
Dick Wilson,
When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945
(Viking Press, 1982), pp. 234–45.

2.
Yoshida Yutaka,
Nihonjin no sens
kan
(Iwanami Shoten, 1995), p. 102, chart 13, citing
kurasho Sh
wa Zaisei-shi Hensh
shitsu, ed.,
Sh
wa zaisei-shi 4
(T
y
Keizai Shinbunsha, 1955).

3.
Ibid., p. 102, chart 12, citing
e Shinobu, ed.,
Shina jihen Dai T
'A sens
kan d
in gaishi
(Fuji Shuppan, 1988).

4.
Reduced to 250 warships of all types by the end of December 1944, the navy had only 53.8 percent of the tonnage with which it had started the war in December 1941. Yamada Akira,
Gunbi kakuch
no kindaishi: Nihongun no kakuch
to h
kai
(Yoshikawa K
bunkan, 1997), p. 205.