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108.
For the official English translation, see Butow,
Japan's Decision to Surrender
, appendix 1, p. 248; for discussion see Bix, “The Sh
wa Emperor's ‘Monologue'…,” pp. 300–302; Fujita Sh
z
,
Tenk
no shis
shi teki kenky
(Iwanami Shoten, 1975), pp. 227–30.

109.
Takeyama Akiko,
Gyokuon h
s
(Banseisha, 1989), p. 128.

110.
Ibid., p. 103.

111.
The idea of the surrender as a broadcast “ritual” comes from ibid., p. 71.

112.
Senda Kak
,
Tenn
to chokugo to Sh
wa shi
(Sekibunsha, 1983), p. 394.

113.
e Shinobu, “Hiroshima-Nagasaki o menzai shita Sh
wa tenn
no sekinin,” in
Sh
kan kiny
bi
(Apr. 28, 1995), p. 40. For an English language translation of the August 17 rescript see U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas,
Psychological Warfare Part Two, Supplement No. 3
(n.p., CINCPAC-CINCPOA Bulletin No. 164–45, 15 Aug. 1945).