Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (237 page)

6.
Yui Daizabur
, Kosuge Nobuko,
Reng
koku horyo gyakutai to sengo sekinin
(Iwanami Bukkuretto no. 321, 1993), p. 19. In opposing the ratification of the Geneva Treaty of July 27, 1927, Concerning the Treatment of Prisoners of War, naval leaders, on Nov. 15, 1934, argued that “Japanese military personnel are forbidden to become prisoners;” and “[i]f we adopt the treaty as it stands…we would have to revise the regulations governing punishment in the military, which would make discipline very difficult to maintain.”

7.
Gordon M. Berger, “Politics and Mobilization in Japan, 1931–1945” in Peter Duus, ed.,
The Cambridge History of Japan
, vol. 6,
The Twentieth Century
(Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 105–6.

8.
Cited in Tanaka Hiromi, “Kyoz
no gunshin T
g
Heihachir
,” in
This is Yomiuri
(Sept. 1993), p. 220.

9.
Kat
Kanji, “Kokka minjinron no seishinka,” in
Kokuhon
(Jan. 26, 1926).

10.
Ogasawara's
T
g
gensui sh
den
first appeared in a limited edition in the
spring of 1921; it was reissued in an inexpensive popular edition in 1925. See Tanaka Hiromi, “Kyoz
no gunshin T
g
Heihachir
,” pp. 234–35.