Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (362 page)

81.
Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
wa tenn
, dai gokan
, pp. 493–94; T
g
's dictated statements to investigators from the Historical Section of GHQ in the follow-up interviews of May 17, 1949 and August 17, 1950, in
U.S. Army Statements of Japanese Officials on World War II
(n.p. 1949–50), vol. 4, Microfilm Shelf No. 51256.

82.
Gaimush
, ed.,
Nihon gaik
nenpy
narabi shuy
bunsho, ge
, (Nihon Kokusai Reng
Ky
kai, 1955), p. 630; Kimishima Kazuhiko, “‘Sh
sen k
saku' to ‘kokutai' ni kansuru ichi shiron,” p. 161.

83.
Prince Takamatsu, maneuvering behind the scenes for the overthrow of the T
j
cabinet, reportedly said at a meeting of the Naval General Staff Headquarters, on June 29, 1944, that, “Since the absolute defense perimeter has been broken from New Guinea and Saipan to Ogasawara, we should now abandon the former ideal of establishing the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and focus our war goal on—to put it bluntly—how cleverly we should be defeated.” Hosokawa Morisada,
J
h
tenn
ni tassezu, ge
(D
k
sha Isobe Shob
, 1953), p. 252.