Historiography
“The emperor is the fountainhood of Japan's life and activities; to receive the emperor's great august Will as one's own is the rationale of making our historical "life" live in the present.” - Kokutai no Hongi
“That is, it can be said that in both the Occident and our country, the deadlock of individualism has led alike to a season of ideological and social confusion and crisis” - Kokutai no Hongi
"If the League was the best hope of the world, then perhaps the sacrifice of a small piece of China was worth it." - President Woodrow Wilson
“a common understanding with respect to principles and policies in the Far East”
Japan press considered the invitation to the agreement as “the greatest calamity that has ever overtaken the Japanese Empire.”
“Manchuria was Japan’s own particular problem”-Prime Minister Tanak
"The ratio works very well for Japan”-Isoroku Yamamoto (commander in chief)
Donald Keene says ‘It’s hard to assess the extent to which the emperor undertook and suggested himself, since he had a heavy reliance on his ministers of state
“While the Emepror - a youth of 16 at the time of the Restoration - had supreme authority accroding to the Constitution, it was understood by tradition and by the Meiji leaders that he would not exercise these powers on his own initiative” - Mary L. Hanneman
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan said the Peace Peservation Law was the ‘central pillar of the system if ideological contorl established in the prewar period and served as the framework for the creation of special techniques for handling ‘thought criminals
“The emperor is the fountainhood of Japan's life and activities; to receive the emperor's great august Will as one's own is the rationale of making our historical "life" live in the present.” - Kokutai no Hongi
“That is, it can be said that in both the Occident and our country, the deadlock of individualism has led alike to a season of ideological and social confusion and crisis” - Kokutai no Hongi
"If the League was the best hope of the world, then perhaps the sacrifice of a small piece of China was worth it." - President Woodrow Wilson
“a common understanding with respect to principles and policies in the Far East”
Japan press considered the invitation to the agreement as “the greatest calamity that has ever overtaken the Japanese Empire.”
“Manchuria was Japan’s own particular problem”-Prime Minister Tanak
"The ratio works very well for Japan”-Isoroku Yamamoto (commander in chief)
Donald Keene says ‘It’s hard to assess the extent to which the emperor undertook and suggested himself, since he had a heavy reliance on his ministers of state
“While the Emepror - a youth of 16 at the time of the Restoration - had supreme authority accroding to the Constitution, it was understood by tradition and by the Meiji leaders that he would not exercise these powers on his own initiative” - Mary L. Hanneman
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan said the Peace Peservation Law was the ‘central pillar of the system if ideological contorl established in the prewar period and served as the framework for the creation of special techniques for handling ‘thought criminals