Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (52 page)

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

Fukushima crisis
see
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis

‘Galapagos syndrome’
173

government bonds
124
–5

and the Gulf War
55

Heisei era
104
,
141

Honshu
50

immigration
165
–7

Imperial Army
70
,
222
,
230
,
248

and the imperial family
50
–51; attempt in 1932 to restore centrality of emperor
73
; denial of divinity
80
; emperor worship
47
,
71
,
73
,
80
; imperial ideology
70
; quasi-fascist imperial cult
71
,
73
; surrender announcement by emperor, World War II
17
,
79
; unquestioning loyalty to emperor
50
,
223

Imperial Household Agency
50
–51

Imperial Rescript on Education (1890)
50

and Indochina
69
,
73
,
228
,
335
n12

industry
see
industry, Japanese

international relations
55
–74
see also
specific countries
; attitudes to western learning and science
61
–3,
64
–5; and humiliation
73
; and the League of Nations
69
,
73
; and the legacy of history and war
219
–35; unequal treaties
55
,
68

invasion attempts on Japan
32

and Iraq
240
–42; hostages
194
–7

and
jakuniku-kyoshoku
thinking
67

‘Japan bashing’
xx
–xxi,
xxviii
,
246

Japanese living abroad
317

Jomon people
48
–9

kokugaku
movement
63

and Korea
32
,
52
,
58
,
60
,
68
,
69
,
87
,
226
; electronics industry and South Korea
167
,
170
,
172
; ethnic Koreans
49
,
165
,
243
; North Korean missiles
334
n6; South Korea
see
South Korea: and Japan

labour force
see
employment: workforce

labour movement
see
labour movement

language
xxiv
; written Japanese
81

and the League of Nations
69
,
73

life expectancy
160
–61,
162
,
330
–31n14

and Manchuria
see
Manchuria: and Japan

Meiji Restoration
see
Meiji Restoration

militarism
see
militarism, Japanese

Ministry of Trade and Industry
86
–8,
90
,
94

modernization
50
,
57
,
59
,
71
,
316
; and cultural loss
95
; and identity
50
,
52
; Iwakura Mission
86
–7; and MITI
86
–8; Tokyo, following 1925 earthquake
77

national anthem
231
–2,
335
n14

national information disclosure bill
287
–8

navy
74
; vessel freeze
73
;
Yamato
86

‘non-Japanese’ population
49

Peace Preservation Law
72

poetry
see
poetry

political disenchantment
279
–89

population
119
,
160
–61,
168

and the Portuguese
59
–60

and the post-industrial era
172
–3

post-war abnormality and normalization concepts and attempts
236
–54

productivity
see
productivity

and racial homogeny myth
35
,
36
–7,
48
–9

religious syncretism
33

resilience
xx
,
xxvii
,
xxxii
,
xxxiii
,
300
,
305

retirement age
163

rigidity in social structure
172

and Russia
see
Russia: and Japan

savings
see
savings

sea’s influence on culture
34

Self Defence Forces
see
Self Defence Forces

sense of identity
see
identity

separateness and the culture of
xxx
,
xxxii
,
31
–54; and Asian relations in light of Pacific War
219
–35; and
bushido
(samurai code)
38
–9; and defence from foreign ideas
31
; and island status/Galapagos mentality
31
,
32
–5,
53
–4; and lack of English
33
; and the leaving of Asia
55
–70,
81
–2,
238
,
245
,
254
; and
mono no aware
(sensitivity to the ephemeral)
40
; and nationalism
47
; and the
Nihonjinron
genre
36
–7,
51
,
52
; and propaganda
46
–7;
sakoku
(closed country) system
32
; and uniqueness
35
–7

Showa era
141
; end of
104

social convention
xxiv
–xxv,
44

Social Masses Party
73

social trade-off model
xxviii
–xxx

and South Korea
see
South Korea: and Japan

state paternalism
xxi
,
152

Taisho era
71
–2

and Taiwan
68
,
83
,
226
,
252

tea ceremony
xxiii

Tohoku region
xx
,
19
–20,
25
–8,
34
,
283
,
286
,
304

Tokugawa period and shogunate
50
,
56
–7,
59
–60

trains
see
trains

tsunamis
see
tsunamis

unemployment
see
unemployment rates

unmarried people
193
–4,
211

and the US
see
United States of America: and Japan

weapons
60
–61

westernization
63
–7,
68
–9,
245
; and humiliation
73
; as a ‘western’/‘European’ power
55
,
57
; and western technology
34

women
see
women

World War II
see
World War II: Japan, the Pacific Campaign and

Yayoi people
48
–9

Yoshida Doctrine
85
,
249

youth
see
youth/young people

‘Japanization’
115
–16

Jaspers, Karl
44

Jerram, Richard
126

Johnson, Chalmers
97

Jomon people
48
–9

Jose, F. Sionil
219

journalists, freelance
288
–9

Juji, Nobuko
16

Juki Net
288

kabuki drama
38
,
68
,
109
–10,
154
,
157

Kaifu, Kozo
232

Kaji, Sahoko
41
–2,
129

Kaletsky, Anatole
128
–9

Kamakura Buddha
6

Kamei, Shizuka
152
,
153

kamikaze
pilots
21
,
74
,
79
,
320
–21n6

Kan, Naoto
16
,
17
–18,
241
,
274
,
282

Kanazawa
xxiii
–xxv,
203

Kandahar, Afghanistan
xxxiii

Kaneko, Ryusuke
148

Kanno, Masaaki
310

Kanno, Sachiko
297

Kanno, Shuichi
296

Kanto earthquake
72
,
77
,
304

Kashima, Shinto god
5

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex
266
,
267

Kato, Norihiro
174
–6,
178

Keene, Donald
58
,
61
,
320
n4

Keidanren
273

keiretsu
system
92
,
101

Kesennuma
188

Keynesian economics
126
,
127

Kim Sun-il
195

Kimigayo
anthem
231
–2,
335
n14

Kimura, Yasuko
23
,
24
,
293
,
294
,
295

Kingston, Jeff
287
,
288

Japan’s Quiet Transformation
287

Kira
188
–9,
191

Kirino, Natsuo
202
–4,
213

Out
202
,
203

Rain Falling on My Face
203

Tokyo Island
202
–3,
207

Kishi, Nobusuke
236

Kissinger, Henry
xxviii

Kita Kyushu
147

Kiyama, Keiko
285
–6

Kobayashi, Yotaro
235

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

Koike, Yuriko
156
,
158

Koizumi, Junichiro
xxvi
,
xxxiv
,
103
,
129
,
131
–43,
144
–59,
221
,
234
,
236
,
279

postal privatization
139
,
148
,
149
–53,
158
–9

recovery of economy under
141
–8

Yasukuni pilgrimages
221
,
234

Koizumi, Junya
139

Koizumi, Kayoko
139

Koizumi, Kotaro
139

Koizumi, Matajiro
138
–9,
159

Koizumi, Shinjiro
139
,
159

Koizumi, Yakumo
see
Hearn, Lafcadio

kokugaku
movement
63

Koll, Jesper
125
,
326
n14,
331
n23

Komuro, Masamichi
67
,
71

Kono, Taro
272

Kono, Yohei
243

Koo, Richard
122
,
125
–6,
172
–3,
207

Korea
32
,
52
,
58
,
60
,
68
,
69
,
226

ethnic Koreans in Japan
49
,
165
,
243

Korean War
85
–6,
87
,
239

North Korean missiles
336
n6

South
see
South Korea

Koriyama, Soichiro
194

Krugman, Paul
82
,
127
–8

Krusenstern, Adam Johann von:
Voyage
61

Kure
86

Kuroda, Haruhiko
307
–8

Kurokawa, Kiyoshi
261
,
267
–9

kuroko
, kabuki drama
109
–10

Kurosawa, Akira
176

Kusama, Yayoi
xxix
,
210

Kuwait
55

Kyoto
27
–8

Kyushu
35
,
252

nuclear power plant
274

labour
see
employment

labour laws
148
,
155
,
270

labour movement
72

Red Purge
81
,
85

unions
81
,
90
; Communist
237

labour underclass
118

language

English
33
,
167

Japanese
xxiv
; written
81

Lawblow (band)
295

Lawson (store chain)
166
,
273
,
309

League of Nations
69
,
73

Lehman Brothers collapse
103
,
120
,
126
,
130
,
154
,
165
,
282

Li Jianli
312

Liberal Democratic Party
103
,
132
,
133
–5,
137
,
140
,
148
,
149
,
150
–51,
153
,
154
,
280
,
283
,
317

‘road tribe’
145
–6

life expectancy
160
–61,
162
,
330
–31n14

Little Boy
exhibition
250

living standards/per capita income
xxxiii
,
95
,
103
,
113
,
116
,
117
,
119
–20,
122
–3,
175
,
178
,
270
,
309
,
317
,
342
nn36–37

LNG
xx

Lockheed
137

MacArthur, Douglas
32
–3,
74
,
80
,
81
,
222
–3