Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (377 page)

55.
Akazawa Shir
, “Sh
ch
tenn
sei no keisei to sens
sekininron,” in
Rekishi hy
ron
313 (July 1976), p. 47.

56.
For the text of the rescript see Senda,
Tenn
to chokugo to Sh
washi
, pp. 401–4.

57.
For detailed analysis of Meiji's imperial oath, see John Breen, “The Imperial Oath of April 1868: Ritual, Politics, and Power in the Restoration,” in
Monumenta Nipponica: Studies in Japanese Culture
51, no. 4 (Winter 1996), p. 410; for analysis of the “Declaration of Humanity” see Bix, “The Sh
wa Emperor's ‘Monologue'…,” pp. 318–21.

58.
Akazawa, “Sh
ch
tenn
sei no keisei to sens
sekininron,” p. 46.

59.
New York Times
, Jan. 1, 1946.

60.
Chicago Daily Tribune
, Jan. 1, 1946.

61.
For the full text of Hirohito's press interview of Aug. 23, 1977, see Takahashi Hiroshi,
Heika otazune m
shiagemasu
(Bungei Shunj
, 1989), p. 253.