Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

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166–67
    Jehol Province affair and, 257–60
    judicial process in, 285
    Kamakura period of, 73
    Kanagawa Prefecture of, 135–36
    Kantearthquake of 1923 in, 140
    kokutai clarification movement in, 282–83, 288–94
    kokutai debate and national identity of, 159–65
    Konoe’s ideological vision of, 176–77
    Korea’s relationship with, 74–75
    labor strife in, 52–53, 54, 196, 206
    Meiji legacy in, 7–9, 27, 28–31
    military and civil discord in, 285–86
    military’s propaganda campaign in, 273–78
    Mizuno incident in, 213
    movement to revise constitution of, 648–49, 654–55, 656, 659, 660, 670
    national defense debate in, 205–6
    national defense plan of 1923 of, 151–52
    national policy making in, 309–10
    Nazi ideology and, 280–81, 289, 307–8
    Nichiren sect of, 11, 163–64, 168–69
    occupied, see Japan, occupied
    onset of Shwa era in, 171–72
    Pak Yol affair and, 160–61, 167
    Paris Peace Conference and, 83–84, 92
    party politics in, 158–60
    political partisanship in, 230–31
    post-occupation nationalism in, 657–59
    responsibility for defeat of, 533–36
    rice cultivation ritual of, 182–83
    rice riots in, 52, 93
    rightists in, 101–2
    right of supreme command debate in, 154–56
    and rise of communism, 150–51
    secrecy in, 178–79, 181, 197–98
    Shimanaka incident in, 665–66
    Soviet declaration of war against, 496, 502, 525, 527, 529, 530
    Soviet neutrality pact with, 393–94, 399, 402, 490, 521, 523
    Soviet relations with, 649, 656–57
    spiritual mobilization campaign in, 313–14
    Tanaka cabinet of, 184–86
    textbook issue in, 659, 668, 680–81
    as theocracy, 16
    thought police of, 195
    Tokugawa tradition of, 59
    Toranomon incident in, 140–42, 158
    and total spiritual mobilization, 276–78
    Tripartite Alliance signed by, 380–83
    Tsinan affair and, 214–15
    undeclared Siberia war of (1918–22), 152–53
    U.S. culture and products in, 41
    U.S. economic sanctions against, 395–96, 400–401, 403, 405, 425
    U.S. military in, 651, 662
    U.S. oil embargo of, 399, 401, 403–7, 408, 439
    U.S. plan for invasion of, 501–2, 524
    U.S.-Soviet Cold War rivalry and, 624, 627, 634, 646, 651
    war dead memorial services in, 651, 652–53, 658–59
    war declared against U.S. by, 436–37
    Washington Conference debates in, 146–51
    West and collective identity of, 279–80
    and Western democratic and social ideas, 103, 105
    in withdrawal from League of Nations, 256, 261–63, 265, 268, 269, 279
    xenophobic nationalism in, 8–9
    Yasukuni Shrine controversy in, 682–83
    Japan, occupied:
    abdication issue in, 550, 552–53, 571–73, 628
    antimilitary campaign in, 555–59
    atomic bomb awareness in, 637
    black market in, 539–40, 619
    Communists and, 552
    â€œcrab walk” incident in, 632–33
    demobilization in, 544
    economy of, 539–40, 624–25
    educational reform in, 552, 560
    election of April 25, 1947
    in, 624–27
    end of occupation, 647
    and fear of occupiers, 537–38
    food distribution crisis in, 619–20
    GHQ-government conflict in, 551–52
    GHQ’s reforms in, 551–52
    and Hirohito-MacArthur photograph, 548, 549–51, 553
    Hirohito’s domestic tours of, 620–26, 628–31
    Hirohito’s religious tours in, 553–55
    Hirohito’s status as emperor in, 568–70
    Hirohito war crimes issue in, 559, 567–68
    Hiroshima visit in, 628–31
    Korean War and, 636, 640–43
    Kyoto University protest incident in, 644–45
    land reform in, 619
    MacArthur-Eisenhower “Secret” telegram and, 567–68
    MacArthur’s strategy for, 544–45
    media censorship in, 551
    Meiji past and, 560–62
    name change in, 621
    New Year’s poetry reading in, 632
    Okinawa issue in, 646
    peace movement in, 642
    peace treaty

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