Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (50 page)

under Abenomics
310

of capital market
102

of energy
310

Diamond, Jared
32

Diaoyu islands
251
–3,
311
–13,
316

dissections
62

divorce
211
–12,
334
n12

Narita
212

Dodge, Joseph
85

domestic violence
211
–12

Domestic Violence Prevention Law
211

Dower, John
xxi
–xxii,
67
,
80
,
223
,
249
,
303
,
304
,
305
,
340
n1

Dulles, John Foster
84

Dutch East Indies
73

earthquakes
5
–6

1854 Ansei Earthquake
6

1923 Great Kanto earthquake
72
,
77
,
304

1995 Kobe earthquake
xxxiii
,
104
,
106
–7,
240
,
284

2011 earthquake
xix
,
xx
,
5
,
6
–7,
13
,
14
,
315
; epicentre
6
; nuclear crisis after
see
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis; size
6
; and Tokyo
7
,
13
,
15
–17,
18
–19,
25

Chile (1960)
24
,
296

Niigata
266
,
267

undersea megathrust
6

Eberstadt, Nicholas
119

economy of Japan
xxii
,
xxxiii
–xxxiv,
35
,
55
,
82
–7,
93
–8,
100
–103,
113
–30

and the abandoning of nuclear power
271

Abenomics
305
–11,
315
–17

and asset prices
102
,
118
,
126
,
181

and the banking system
see
banking system

bond market
124
–5

bubble burst
98
,
100
–103,
104
,
110
,
117
,
118
,
126
,
129
–30,
303

and cash hoarding
114
–15

consumer-led
102

and corporate culture
82

debt
xxvii
,
xxxiii
,
115
–16,
123
–7,
146
–7,
271
,
283
,
306

deflation
114
–15,
119
,
123
,
127
,
130
,
144
,
163
,
179
,
303
,
306
–7,
308
–9

deregulation
see
deregulation

and ‘empty affluence’
93

and the export to import shift
102

and exports
93
,
102

film portrayal in
Always: Sunset on Third Street
93
–4

and the global economy
xx
–xxi,
117

growth rate
174
–6; and ‘life after growth’
160
–79

and immigration
165
–7

inflation
85
,
94
,
124
,
127
,
306
,
307
,
309
–10,
326
n31

Izanagi boom
144
–5

and ‘Japanization’
115
–16

Lehman shock
120
,
165
,
282

and living standards
see
living standards/per capita income

and managed industrial policy
82

national income-doubling plan
93

as Number Three
117
,
174
,
317

oil shocks
94
,
104

percentage of global output
xxi

post-bubble experience and assessment
114
–30,
144
–8

post-war: catch-up
116
–17; economy of production and exports
102
; ruins
82
,
83
–4; and the US
83
–6

and property prices
100
–101,
102
,
103

public expenditure
103
,
127
,
145
–6,
328
n26
see also
public works

recessions
xxvi
,
72
,
103
,
114
,
120
,
126
,
128
,
131
,
183

recovery under Koizumi
141
–8

and the Red Purge
85

revisionist view of
96
–7

shares
see
shares

stimulus packages
103
,
131
,
308
–9

stock market
see
stock market, Japan

and tax increases
283

and the tsunami
120
,
315
–16

and the US dollar
101
–2

as a US threat
96
–8

yen strength
101
–2,
145
,
169
,
270
,
307
,
308
–9

and the youth
123
,
174
–5,
183

Edo
59
,
62
see also
Tokyo

Edo era
38
–9,
170

education
51
,
230
–33,
237
,
248
,
331
n24,
333
n2

beliefs of Communist influence on
237
–8

Chinese
219

Fundamental Law of Education
243

higher
see
higher education

and nuclear accident downplaying
265

and patriotism
230
–32,
335
n14

and revisionists
230
–33

school textbooks
57
,
230
–31,
232
–3,
248
,
265

schools and radiation
277

yutori
333
n2

electricity

conservation
270
,
273

feed-in tariff
305

market competition
305

production
265
; after Fukushima
270
–74

shortages following Fukushima disaster
xx
,
15
–16,
18

electronics industry
xxvi
,
94
,
167
,
170
–71,
253
,
332
n40

emperor worship
47
,
71
,
73
,
80

employment

apprenticeships
xxviii
–xxix,
290

business practices
see
company culture and business practice

casual/non-regular
47
,
155
,
184
,
197
,
284

contract workers used at Fukushima
265
–6

discrimination against women
164
–5,
205
,
206
–7,
213

health sector
166
–7

and identity
197
–8

job seeking
180
–82

jobs for life
90
,
93
,
148
,
186

labour laws
148
,
155
,
270

labour market: breakdown
192
,
316
–17; liberalization
148
;
shushoku katsudo
(screening/mass hiring of graduates)
180
–81,
192
; two-tiered
265

labour movement
see
labour movement

labour policy practice
205

lack of
see
unemployment rates

liberalization of labour market
155

part-time work and workers
118
,
163
,
164
,
175
,
184
,
192
,
197
,
210
,
212
–13

pay
see
pay

retirement age
163
,
164

service sector
166

and social status
182

work ethic
172
,
213
; Japanese view of US
96
; young alternative
198

workforce
47
–8,
160
–61,
163
,
164
,
173
; health sector
166
–7; immigrant
165
–7; in manufacturing
169
; part-time
118
,
163
,
175
,
184
,
192
,
197
,
210
,
212
–13;
shushoku katsudo
(screening/mass hiring of graduates)
180
–81,
192
; women
164
–5,
181
–2,
205
,
206
,
212
–13,
214
,
331
nn26–27

the ‘working poor’
197

workplace discrimination
205

of young people
181
–3,
185
–6,
189
–91

energy

compensation for loss of nuclear power
271

conservation
270
–71,
273

feed-in tariff
305

imports
94

national energy bill
271

nuclear
see
nuclear power and industry

renewable
271
,
272
–3

review of national policy
274

English language
33
,
167

Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities (ETIC)
188
,
198

equality/inequality
118
,
121
–2,
148
,
155
–6,
158
–9,
284

equal-opportunity legislation
209
–10

gender discrimination
164
–5,
205
,
206
–7,
213

Gini coefficient
155
,
329
n46

women’s
202
–16; and the UN Gender Inequality Index
205
,
334
nn3–4; and work
164
–5,
205
,
206
–7,
213

ETIC (Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities)
188
,
198

exports
93
,
102

Fallows, James
97

Family Mart
166

family structure
162
,
212
see also
marriage

fashion
188
,
198

fertility rates
160
,
161
–2,
164

feudal caste system
65
,
71

abolition
xxxii
,
49
,
50
,
71
,
303

overturned by samurai modernizing clique
71

finance ministry
123
,
128
,
142
,
145

Financial Services Agency
142

Financial Times
308

bureau
16

Fiscal Investment and Loan Programme
151

flag, Japanese
231
–2,
335
n14

food
xxiv
,
3
,
19
–20,
83
,
175
,
189

additives
287

after the tsunami
258
,
263
,
285
,
286

football, Nadeshiko team
206
–7

Ford
87

Franzen, Jonathan:
Freedom
176

fugu
(poisonous fish)
136

Fuji Seitetsu
90

Fuji Xerox
235

Fujiwara, Masahiko
37
–41,
45
,
155

Dignity of the Nation
37
,
38
,
40

fukoku kyohei
(‘rich country, strong army’)
85
,
316

Fukuda, Takeo
137

Fukuda, Yasuo
147

Fukuoka
147

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis
14
–15,
257
–78

anti-nuclear popular sentiment after
273
–8,
304
–5

breaching of sea defences
261
–2

and contract workers
265
–6

dead zone
258
–60

and decommissioning
264

efforts to control
14
–15,
262
–3

electricity shortages following
xx
,
15
–16,
18

evacuation zone
15
,
257

firefighting
21

hotspot areas
257
–60,
276

hydrogen explosions
17
,
257
,
262

and Iitate
259
–60,
276

long-term health effect expectations
275
–6

meltdown
14
–15,
267

nationwide nuclear shutdown after
269
–70

and Odaka
257
–9

and official/Japanese culture
xxi
,
260
–61,
267
–9

parliamentary enquiry
261
,
263
,
264
,
266
,
267
–9

and public dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party and the political class
279
–89