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ronsha, 1990), pp. 241–58.

97.
See Yokota K
ichi, “'Koshitsu tempan' shich
” in Yokota, Ebashi,
Sh
ch
tenn
sei no k
z
: kenp
gakusha ni yoru kaidoku,
pp. 106–8; for the English text,
Political Reorientation of Japan
, pp. 846–48.

98.
Watanabe Osamu, “Nihon koku kenp
uny
shi josetsu,” in Higuchi Y
ichi, ed.,
K
za, kenp
gaku
1, pp. 116–32.

99.
Kinoshita Michio, “Seij
no goshinky
,” in
Chory
(Mar. 1946), p. 86; Kinoshita,
Sokkin nisshi
, p. 169; cited in Tanaka,
Dokyumento Sh
wa tenn
, dai hakkan
, pp. 424–25. This interview appeared after the emperor had read and approved it. Hirohito obviously believed he could remain the moral and spiritual center of the nation.