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Authors: Herbert P. Bix
Tags: #General, #History, #Biography & Autobiography, #Military, #World War II
29.
Heiwa Hakubutsukan o tsukurukai, ed.,
Kami no sens
, dentan: b
ryaku senden bira wa kataru
(Japan Peace Museum, Emiiru K. K., 1990), p. 125.
30.
“Report on Psychological Warfare Against Japan, Southwest Pacific Area, 1944â1945,” Mar. 15, 1946, p. 13. Bonner F. Fellers Collection, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, Calif.
31.
Reproduced and cited in Higashino Shin,
Sh
wa tenn
futatsu no “dokuhakuroku
” (NHK Shuppan, 1998), p. 79.
32.
Awaya Kentar
, Kawashima Takamine, “Gyokuon h
s
wa teki no b
ryaku da,” in
This Is Yomiuri
(Nov. 1994), p. 47. The
Chian j
h
material, published in seven volumes by Nihon Tosho Sent
in Tokyo in late 1994, is an invaluable source for understanding Japanese opinion at the time of the ending of the war.
33.
Twice in the late thirteenth century, the “winds of the gods” decimated invading Mongol armadas off the shores of Kyushu. By taking the name
kamikaze
, the pilots who attacked Allied ships evoked one of the most powerful memories in Japanese history.
34.
Yui Daizabur
, “Beikoku no sengo sekai k
s
to Ajia” in
Senry
kaikaku no kokusai hikaku: Nihon, Ajia, Y
roppa
, Yui Daizabur
et al., eds. (Sanseid
, 1994), pp. 12â13.