Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (346 page)

5.
Rekishi Ky
ikusha Ky
gikai, ed.,
Maboroshi dewa nakatta hondo kessen
(K
bunken, 1995), pp. 19–20; Yamada,
Gunbi kakuch
no kindaishi
, p. 210.

6.
Katsuno Shun,
Sh
wa tenn
no sens
(Tosho Shuppansha, 1990), pp. 205–6.

7.
Yabe Teiji, a Tokyo Imperial University scholar and ideologue who served as Konoe's political adviser, observed after the war that Konoe's private audience with the emperor in February was the first he had been allowed to have in nearly three years. Yabe also noted: “Until around the time of the fall of Saipan, Kido had absolute faith in T
j
, and what anyone told Kido was immediately passed on to T
j
.” See Yabe Teiji, “K
shitsu no chi nagareru Konoe Fumimaro,” in
Bungei shunj
,
tokush
g
: tenn
hakusho
(Oct. 1956), p. 190.