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Editor’s Introduction
This poem erases the “Editor’s Introduction,” by Robert King Hall, which accompanies the 1949 English translation of Kokutai No Hongi, subtitled in English Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan. The Japanese version was one of the few imperial documents banned in Japan by the Supreme Command for the Allied Powers (SCAP) after the war. Hall’s text is available here with free registration.