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Japanese VOLUME TWO • TOKYO Japanese World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution D A LE M. H E L L E G E RS VOLUME TWO • TOKYO Stanford University Press Stanford, California 2001 Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2002 Dale M. Hellegers Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hellegers, Dale M. We, the Japanese people : World War II and the origins of the Japanese constitution / Dale M. Hellegers. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8047-3454-2 i. World War, 1939-1945—Armistices. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Japan. 3. Japan— History—Allied occupation, 1945—1952. 4. Constitutions—Japan. I. Title. D8i3j3 H45 2001 940.53'i44'o952—dc2i 2001042977 Original printing 2001 Last figure below indicates year of this printing: 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 Designed and typeset by Princeton Editorial Associates, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona To the memory of my father, Lieutenant Jay C. Moss, who fought the war but never knew the peace. CONTENTS VOLUME TWO •TOKYO 10. Under Siege: The Early Days of Occupation 405 11. "Dust and Ashes": The Konoe Affair 438 12. "Opaque, Bureaucratic Secretiveness": The Shidehara Government Looks at Constitutional Reform 461 13. Atomic Sunshine Boys: The Rise of the Government Section 487 14. A "Top Secret" Constitutional Convention 518 15. "For Your Convenience and Protection": Negotiating with the Japanese Government 527 Epilogue 545 APPENDIXES APPENDIX A The Preamble 553 APPENDIX B The Emperor and Miscellaneous Affairs 557 APPENDIX c Renunciation of War 576 APPENDIX D Civil Rights 580 APPENDIX E The Diet 612 APPENDIX F The Executive 630 APPENDIX G The Judiciary 645 APPENDIX H Public Finance 657 vu vm Contents APPENDIX i Local Government 666 APPENDIX j A Comparison of the MacArthur Draft and the Japanese Government Draft of 2 March 1946 A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 7*3 Notes to Volume Two Selected Bibliography 795 Index 809 Japanese VOLUME TWO • TOKYO
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