Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (350 page)

17.
Kinbara Samon, Takemae Eiji, eds.,
Sh
wa-shi—z
hoban
(Y
hikaku Sensho, 1989), p. 218; Walter LaFeber,
The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations
(W. W. Norton, 1997), p. 236.

18.
Yoshihashi Kaiz
, “Jij
bukan toshite mita sh
sen no toshi no kiroku,” in
Gunji shigaku
2 (Aug. 1965), pp. 97–98.

19.
Cited in Kunegi Toshihiro, “Shidehara Kij
r
—‘heiwa gaik
' no honne to tatemae” in Yoshida Yutaka, Ara Kei et al.,
Haisen zengo: Sh
wa tenn
to gonin no shid
sha
(Aoki Shoten, 1995), p. 96.

20.
The letter was addressed to
daira Komatsuchi, Shidehara's friend from university days. Cited in ibid., p. 97.

21.
Prince Konoe Fumimaro, Mar. 30, 1945, cited in
Hosokawa nikki
(Ch
K
ronsha, 1978), pp. 373–74.