p. 313 “found the war leaders all saying virtually the same thing.” Ibid., 583.
p. 313 “. . . It is quite possible that a million troops would be required which would have to be maintained for an indefinite number of years.” Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1946: The Far East, vol. 8 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946), 396.
p. 313 “. . . like worn-out garments after almost eight centuries of exalted existence.” Dower, Embracing Defeat, 303.
p. 314 “. . . To try him as a war criminal would not only be blasphemous but a denial of spiritual freedom.” Ibid., 298.
p. 314 “Hanging of the Emperor to them would be comparable to the crucifixion of Christ to us.” Ibid., 282.
p. 314 “. . . any more than you remove the godhead of Jesus and have any Christianity left.” Ibid., 284.
p. 314 “went to work to protect Hirohito from the role he had played during and at the end of the war.” Bix, Hirohito, 582.
p. 314 “. . . ‘I had already decided to push for war even if his majesty the emperor was against going to war with the United States.’” Takada Makiko, “Shinshutsu Shiryo kara mita ‘Showa Tenno dokuhakuroku,’” Seiji kiezai shigaku 299 (March 1991): 41.
p. 314 “. . . connected Hirohito to political decisions during the past decade.” Dower, Embracing Defeat, 324.
p. 314 “by all means go home immediately.” Ibid., 326.
p. 314 “the prosecution functioned, in effect, as a defense team for the emperor.” Ibid., 326.
p. 315 “. . . They made up the rules after the game was over.” Ibid., 452.
p. 315 “We wanted blood and, by God, we had blood.” Ibid., 452.
p. 315 “. . . or our generals and admirals would all be shot at sunrise without a hearing of any sort.” Ibid., 627.
p. 315 “leader of the crime, though available for trial, had been granted immunity.” Ibid., 460.
p. 315 “. . . the present Defendants could only be considered as accomplices.” “Dissenting Judgement of the Member from France,” in B. V. A. Röling and G. F. Rüter, eds., The Tokyo Judgment: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (I.M.T.F.E.), 29 April 1946-12 November 1948, vol. 1 (Amsterdam: University Press Amsterdam, 1977), 496.
p. 315 “. . . on that point I am being comforted.” Peter Maguire, Law and War: An American Story (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 193.
p. 315 . . . a three-hour lunch with Emperor Hirohito at the palace. Ibid.
p. 316 “. . . a valuable property for post-war Japan; and one thus worth protecting.” Ian Ward, The Killer They Called a God (Singapore: Media Masters, 1996), 295.
p. 317 “. . . never again will the like of these cases have to be presented.” All quotes and information about the war crimes trials of Japanese officers, soldiers, and doctors stationed on Chichi Jima are from the Guam War Crimes trial transcripts, located in the National Archives, unless otherwise noted.
p. 318 “You are not Japanese,” the general told him. Shepardson, The Bonin Islands.
p. 319 Japan had held 132,134 western POWs and 35,756 of them died in detention, a death rate of 27 percent. Tanaka, Hidden Horrors, 2.
p. 319 “Moreover, the postwar death rate among surviving POWs of the Japanese was also higher.” Ibid., 2.
p. 319 More than 62,000 Japanese POWs—almost twice as many as Allied POW deaths—would die in the gulag. Cook and Cook, Japan at War, 403.
p. 322 . . . 5,700 Japanese were indicted for war crimes. About 920 were executed, 525 received life sentences, 2,944 were sentenced to more limited prison terms, 1,018 were acquitted, and 279 were never brought to trial. Dower, Embracing Defeat, 447.
p. 326 “. . . and strips of their flesh used to flavor soup.” Gilbert Cant, “Yankee Trader’s Descendant Welcomes U.S. Flag,” Life, June 24, 1946.
pp. 328-329 “. . . I want to shoot the person who killed my daughter.” Nihon no kushu, vol. 4, ed. Seiichi Imai (Tokyo: Sanseido, 1981).
p. 329 “. . . ‘Hiroko-chan, you must have been hot. Teruko-chan, you must have been hot.’” Cook and Cook, Japan at War, 349.
p. 329 “You had to live those years and walk that mile.” Paul Tibbets, Return of the Enola Gay (Columbus, OH: Mid Coast Marketing, 1988), 8.
pp. 330-331 “. . . So I say I forgive them.” Lewis and Steele, Hell in the Pacific, 251.
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About the Author
James Bradley is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers and the son of one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. The story of the events on Chichi Jima was first brought to his attention after the publication of that book and involved several years of research, travel, and writing—including a return trip to Chichi Jima with President George H. W. Bush.
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