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Reading Kita Ikki's Shina Kakumei Gaishi while discussing it with Kita Reikichi.

— Inejirō Asanuma

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mid-September 1939, Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary, trans. from Japanese. In Dōshisha Hōgaku (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021)

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