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Machine generated contents note: VOLUME ONE * WASHINGTON
1. Unconditional Surrender and Its Legacies 1
2. Uneasy Allies: Soviet Participation in the Pacific War 34
3. Voices in the Wilderness 57
4. The Roadto Potsdam: Defining Unconditional Surrender 101
5. Potsdam: The Politics of Deliverance 120
6. "Come Hell or High Water": Terms of Surrender for Japan 138
7. Planning for the Military Government ofJapan, 1942-1944 159
8. "A Sunday School Flavor": Planning for
the Military Government ofJapan, 1945 190
9. "The Velvet Glove": Policy Toward the Emperor
and Constitutional Reform 223
A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 249
lo. UnderSiege: 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
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 F The Executive 630
APPENDIX G The Judiciary 645
APPENDIX H Public Finance 657
APPENDIX I Local Government 666
APPENDIXJ A Comparison of the MacArthur Draft and the
Japanese Government Draft of 2 March 1946 673
A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 713
Selected Bibliography 795
