NOTES
- For an outline of the development of N.H.K.'s international broadcasting see History Compilation Room, Radio and T.V. Culture Research Institute, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai 50 Years of Japanese Broadcasting N.H.K. Tokyo 1977 63 65 and 79–80.
- For a description of the Cabinet Information Bureau see Meo L.D. Japan's Radio War on Australia, 1941–1945 Melbourne 1968 19 32
- Matsuoka Yōsuke (1880–1946) was Foreign Minister from July 1940 to July 1941. The text of the Tripartite Pact of 27 September 1940 is reprinted in Deterrent Diplomacy, Japan, Germany and the U.S.S.R., 1935–1940 Morley J.W. New York 1976 298 299
- The employment of prisoners-of-war in wartime propaganda broadcasting is described in Ikeda Norizane, Hinomaru Awā (Chūkōshinsho, Tokyo, 1979). It is briefly mentioned in de Mendelssohn P. Japan's Political Warfare London 1944 38 39
- Over 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent were interned in the spring of 1942. For a study of internment see Thomas D.S. Nishimoto R.S. The Spoilage Berkeley 1946
- For the text of the Emperor's broadcast see Butow R.J.C. Japan's Decision to Surrender Stanford, California 1954 248 248
- Namikawa , Ryō . 1982 . Overseas Broadcasting by Japan during World War II and After , Bellagio Conference Papers Bellagio, , Italy unpublished “On that day of the Japanese surrender I was asked to attend a wedding ceremony in the evening. The bride and the bridgroom were Chinese announcers. I was surprised to be invited to the ceremony, but I went to a house in a backstreet. All the streets of Shanghai were in uproar with endless lantern parades of Chinese citizens and the sound of crackers. Everybody was smiling and laughing … (…) I went down the dark, narrow, backstreet and found the room where the wedding ceremony was to be held. I entered the room. It was simple and dark. A single Chinese lantern threw light on a gorgeous gladiolus in a pot on the table and on the bridge and bridegroom. I was the only guest … Asked by them I recited the poem “I heard an angel singing/when the day was springing/mercy, pity, peace is the world's release/Thus he sang all day …”