Talk:Shadow shogun

Translation and source notes

The English text translates and adapts the Japanese Wikipedia article 闇将軍, revision 110771393, with political judgments attributed to their authors or publications and full citations collected in a Sources section. The existing English disambiguation Shadow Shogun covered additional people; the list have been moved here as a section with request for sources.

Source checks and limitations, as of 12 September 2026:

• The dictionary definition, JACROW performance dates, Nikkan Gendai interview, JBpress commentary, and the accessible portion of the Diamond Online commentary were checked. Diamond's later pages require an account; the translated claims appear in its accessible introductory page.
• The original Kinokuniya awards URL did not load. It was replaced with two official sources: the 55th awards ceremony account and the 58th awards announcement. The 2020 award was presented in February 2021; the text distinguishes the award year from the date of that source.
• The AERA article by Taichi Sakaiya was checked against a copy of its full text on 12 September 2026, particularly section (5), on the shadow shogun period and the Lockheed scandal. The Tanaka paragraph attributes the account of his influence over successive governments and the end of this period to Sakaiya. The website itself was not retrieved, so the citation's inherited access date remains unchanged.
• The Kodansha citation was checked against its working book page for Kenya Matsuda's Yami shōgun, a preface excerpt, and cover images. The excerpt characterises both Ozawa and Hiromu Nonaka as the "last shadow shoguns" since Tanaka. The English text attributes this characterisation directly to Matsuda and includes Nonaka. The paperback cover confirms the author and full title, 闇将軍：野中広務と小沢一郎の正体. The citation uses the 2003 edition and ISBN 9784062117067 listed on the publisher's linked page. The short footnote identifies the preface excerpt; no page number is inferred, and the rest of the book has not been reviewed.
• The original ABEMA video URL is no longer available. The reference was replaced with the 19 June 2020 appearance announcement on Ozawa's official website, which reproduces the programme description and explicitly includes 闇将軍. The English sentence identifies this announcement as its evidence. A separate official notice confirms the exact title, カンニング竹山の土曜The NIGHT #106~小沢一郎氏登場！~, and the broadcast slot: 20 June 2020, 24:00–26:00, meaning 21 June, 00:00–02:00 in Japan.
• A matching YouTube upload beginning with the title 「小沢一郎×カンニング竹山」 was found on the channel 語りべばあば. The uploader's description identifies the 20 June 2020 episode, YouTube reports approximately 83 minutes of video and a playable status. The complete video was not reviewed; the uploader is not the broadcaster. The Wikipedia text cites the official written announcement.
• The first page of the President Online article was accessible; later pages failed to load. The translation retains only its stated possibility of Abe becoming a shadow shogun.
• Gendai Seiji Kenkyūkai's 田中角栄：その栄光と挫折 (1976), p. 292, was removed from the English text's footnotes and Sources section because the cited passage could not be obtained for verification. Attempts to retrieve its NDL digital edition had also failed. The origin account uses Nakano and Kobayashi, with their verification status recorded below.
• Nakano (1982), p. 387, was partially checked against Google Books search excerpts. The link was added to the Sources entry. The excerpt states that Tanaka and Hayasaka thought of the nickname while watching television and includes dialogue adapting 闇奉行 to 闇将軍 because the higher title better suited a former prime minister. A further search for 萬屋錦之介 returned another excerpt from p. 387 identifying the actor and describing his character as a Nagasaki magistrate who punished wrongdoers at night; these details are cited to Nakano. A search for 長崎犯科帳 returned no matches, which does not establish that the title is absent from the book. The programme title and year have been omitted following removal of the inaccessible Tachibana source. The attribution of the specific suggestion to Hayasaka remains cited to Kobayashi. The snippets do not identify the speakers, and the complete page remains unavailable. Nakano's name reading and bibliographic details were checked against the NDL catalogue; its digital edition was not retrieved.
• Tachibana's ロッキード裁判とその時代 (1994), vol. 2, p. 10 (Asahi Bunko; ISBN 4-02-261009-3), was removed from the footnotes and Sources section because the cited passage could not be obtained for verification. The programme title and year and the explanation of how the nickname acquired negative connotations were also removed because they depended on this unchecked passage. The origin account supported by the available Nakano excerpts remains.
• Kobayashi (1983) was checked using Google Books. A search for 闇将軍 returned the origin account on p. 179. A search for 闇奉行 returned snippets from pp. 179–180: Tanaka proposes calling himself a shadow magistrate, and Hayasaka suggests shadow shogun as more appropriate for a former prime minister. This verifies the text's attribution of that suggestion to Hayasaka. The short footnote cites pp. 179–180 because Hayasaka's remark continues onto p. 180, and the Sources entry links to the search. The Google Books record also confirms the author, publisher, year, and ISBN. Only the displayed snippets were inspected; the complete pages remain unavailable.
• The AERA article specifies July 1976 for Tanaka's indictment. The translation retains the prosecution and year without the month. The source gives two different December 1974 resignation dates (7 and 9 December) and calls the shadow shogun period approximately six years and two months without explaining its starting point. The translation uses only the month and year of resignation and attributes the February 1985 endpoint and Takeshita's break with the faction to Sakaiya; it does not import the conflicting day or the unexplained duration.
• Japanese source titles remain in their original script. The trans-title fields are descriptive English translations, not claims that English editions exist. Generic words, dates, and categories were adapted to English Wikipedia usage. The original subject matter was retained, with the awards, Kodansha and ABEMA references replaced by the sources described above and the origin account narrowed after removal of Tachibana.

The retained origin claims have been checked against snippets from Nakano, p. 387, and Kobayashi, pp. 179–180; the complete pages have not been reviewed. The AERA text has been reviewed, and the Kodansha and ABEMA-related claims have also been checked against accessible written sources. --Викидим (talk) 21:01, 12 September 2026 (UTC)