1. By 1940 Japan had experienced constitutional government for a half century, with no less success than some Western European countries had achieved. Japan had also some success in experimenting with political parties. See Watkins, "Prospects of Constitutional Democracy." "The Japanese had also made their transition to being an industrialized nation, a fully educated nation, and a modernized nation in the nineteenth century" (Reischauer, "Two Harvard Luminaries," 12). [BACK]

3. MacArthur, Reminiscences , 305-306, fn. [BACK]