Jabarkan Biografi dari Kōichi Kido

Kido lahir di Akasaka, Tokyo, dan merupakan cucu dari Kido Takayoshi, salah satu pemimpin Restorasi Meiji.

Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Company (1999).

Yagami, Kazuo. Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941. McFarland (2006) ISBN 0-7864-2242-4

Wetzler. Peter. Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan. University of Hawaii Press. (1998) ISBN 0-8248-1925-X

Finn,Richard B. Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan. University of California Press (1992) ISBN 0-520-06909-9