Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (209 page)

59.
The
Katori
returned on Sept. 2, one day ahead of schedule, forcing Hirohito to stay aboard ship because the official welcome had been prepared for the third. See ibid.

60.
Hara Kei nikki, dai ky
kan
, Sept. 19, 1921, p. 445.

61.
Ibid., p. 452, entry of Sept. 21; cited in Suzuki,
K
shitsu seido
, pp. 150–51.

62.
“Nara Takeji kais
roku (s
an),” p. 319.

63.
MNN
, p. 26.

64.
Ibid., p. 65.
Kannamesai
, held annually on Oct. 17, was the ritual exercise of offering the new grain crops to Amaterasu
mikami.

65.
On Chinda's indebtedness to the Meiji emperor and his keen sense of responsibility for nurturing the virtues of Hirohito, see Kusazawa Gakut
, “Chinda Sutemi,”
Gendai
(June 1, 1927), p. 291.

66.
Kojima Noboru cites the alleged deathbed comment of Empress Nagako's father, Prince Kuni no miya Kuniyoshi, uttered on Jan. 27, 1929. “The present emperor has in him a weakness of the will; he needs the empress's assistance. Do your best; do your best.” One can only wonder how many other court officials during the 1920s thought Hirohito had a weak will. See Kojima,
Tenn
, dai nikan
(Bungei Shunj
, 1974), p. 56.

67.
Sasaki,
Gendai tenn
sei no kigen to kin
,
p. 86.

68.
Harold Nicolson,
King George V: His Life and Reign
(London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1952), pp. 141–42.

69.
Ibid., p. 252.

70.
Sasaki,
Gendai tenn
sei no kigen to kin
, p. 87.

71.
James F. Willis,
Prologue to Nuremberg: The Politics and Diplomacy of Punishing War Criminals of the First World War
(Greenwood Press, 1982), p. 103.

72.
Sasaki,
Gendai tenn
sei no kigen to kin
, p. 87.