Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (53 page)

McCarthy, Cormac:
The Road
22

McCormack, Gavan
46
,
47

McDonald’s
309

Macfarlane, Alan
42
–3,
44
,
45

Japan Through the Looking Glass
42
,
45

Magnus, George
161
,
162

maid cafés
194

Makihara, Minoru
271

Malaysia
69
,
73
,
83

Malraux, André
63

Manchukuo
70

Manchuria

Chinese invasion by
63

and Japan: 1905 invasion
68
; 1931 invasion
73
,
228
; and the South Manchurian Railway
335
n11

Manila massacre
228
–9

manufacturing industry
xxi
,
36
,
47
,
148
,
166
,
169
–73,
270
–71,
285
see also
specific industries

marriage
162
,
164
,
181
,
193
,
205
,
207
,
209
–10,
211
,
213
,
290
–91,
334
n15

and divorce
211
–12,
334
n12

Marubeni
305

Marxism
72
,
230
,
237
–8
see also
communism

Matsumaru, Kazue
83

Matsumoto, Chizuo
108

Matsumoto, Hisashi
240

Matsumoto, Ryu
282
–3

Matsushita
91
,
100

Matsutani, Mitsuko
16

medical care
146
,
161

nursing
166
–7

Meiji Restoration
50
,
56
–7,
59
,
66
–7,
71
,
73
,
141
,
150
,
247
,
303

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

Melville, Herman
60

merit pay
89
,
155

Merkel, Angela
260

methane
305

Midway, battle of
74

Mihama nuclear power plant
267

Mihashi, Kaori
204

Mikitani, Hiroshi
167
,
273

militarism, Japanese
70
,
73
,
80
,
85
,
87
,
239
,
244
,
316

and Asian relations
220
,
221
,
223
,
230
; and the legacy of war
219
–35

‘comfort women’ used by military
230
,
243

and Japanese identity
223

Japanese objections to term ‘aggression’
228
,
230
–31

and Japanese pacifist self-image
220
,
224
–5,
228
,
230
–31

as response to the West
39
,
59
,
69
,
73
–4

and war apologies
221
–2,
235
,
313

Yomiuri
investigation of Japan’s war record
233

Minami, Ryo
305

Minamisanriku
14

Ministry of Finance
123
,
128
,
142
,
145

Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI)
86
–8,
90
,
94

Mitchell, David
xxx

MITI (Ministry of Trade and Industry)
86
–8,
90
,
94

Mitsubishi Corporation
110
,
271

Miura, Atsushi:
Lower Class Society
155

Miura, Toshiaki
233
–4,
283
,
286

Miyachi, Masato
72

Miyake, Issey
90

Miyamoto, Yoshinaga
139

Mongols
32
,
51

Monju fast-breeder reactor
266

monozukuri
170
,
174

Moody’s Investors Service
123
,
124

Moon, Sun Myung, Unification Church
109

Mori, Joji:
The Shell-less Egg
36

Mori, Motonari
307

Mori, Yoshiro
133

Mori Building Company
235

Morita, Akio
88
–9,
90
,
171

Morita, Minoru
95
,
154

Morozumi, Yoshihiko
88

Murakami, Haruki
xxii
,
xxiv
,
xxxiii
,
51
,
104
–7,
109
–10,
183
–4

After the Quake
106
–8

Underground
109
,
183

Murakami, Takashi
250

Murakami, Yoko
106

Nadeshiko (women’s soccer team)
206
–7

Nagano
148

Nagaoka Clan
136

Nagasaki
61
,
70
,
79
,
224

Nagoya
79

Nakahara, Kaori
214
–15

Nakasone, Yasuhiro
102
,
156
–7,
225
–6,
272

Nakayama, Nariaki
243

Nanjing/Nanking
58

massacre
78
,
228
–9,
230
,
237

Nara, Yoshitomo
246

Narita divorce
212

Nathan, John
89

Nehru, Jawaharlal
70

Netherlands
see
Holland/the Dutch

New York Times
174

NHK
273

Nichicon
168
,
169

Nihombashi
88

Niigata earthquake
266
,
267

Niinami, Takeshi
309

Nikkei stock average
100
,
117
–18,
325
n1

Nikon
86

Nippon Electric Company
90

Nippon Steel
90

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
101

Nishida, Mrs
xxiii

Nissan
87

Nixon, Richard
253

Noda, Yoshihiko
128
,
283
,
320
n5

Nogi, Maresuke
71

Norway
120

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
265
,
274

nuclear crisis at Fukushima
see
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis

nuclear power and industry
200
–201,
262
–9

accidents/incidents: Chernobyl
260
,
265
,
275
–6; Fukushima
see
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis; Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
266
,
267
; Mihama
267
; Tokai
266
–7

after Fukushima
269
–74

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

cost of nuclear energy production
271
–2

economics of using and abandoning nuclear power
270
–72

energy compensation for abandoning
271

faking of safety data
266
–7

and the ‘nuclear village’
264
–9,
272
,
274
,
277
–8

phasing out policy
274

regulation
265
,
266
–7,
274

safety myth
266

subsidies
271
,
274

Yoyogi Park protest
273

Nuremberg
225

nursing
166
–7

Obama, Barack
35
,
316

Obuchi, Keizo
123

Odaka
257
–9

Oe, Kenzaburo
xxvi
,
109
,
248
,
273

Ofunato
19
–20,
21
–4,
291
–5

Ogata, Sadako
78
,
138

Ogata, Shijuro
19
,
77
–9,
81
–2,
83
–4,
104
,
283

Ogata, Taketora
78
,
80
–81

Ohara, Ichizo
65
,
136
,
137

Oi nuclear power plant
269

oil
73
,
94
,
104
,
252
,
271

Oita
287

Okakura, Kakuzo:
The Book of Tea
52
,
68

Okamoto, Yukio
270

Okazaki, Hisahiko
237
–9,
245

Okinawa
49
,
60
,
247
–8

battle of
74
,
79
,
248

US bases on
247
,
248
–9,
250
–51

Okita, Saburo
84

‘Old Mother Green Tea’
62

Olympic Games, Tokyo

1964
264

2020
317

Omi, Koji
128
,
144

Onamazu
5

Onda, Katsunobu
266

Onishi, Norimitsu
265

Ono, Taiichi
36
–7

Onodera, Itsunori
312
–13

Onoue, Nui
99
,
100

OPEC oil embargo
94

Opium War, first
57
,
66

Osaka
79
,
86
,
92
,
99
,
198

Osawa, Machiko
210

Oshima, Kenichi
271
–2

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
109

Ota, Masahide
248

Oyama, Yoshimori
295
–6

Ozu, Yasujiro:
Tokyo Story
95

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

Pacific Ring of Fire
6

pacifism
55
,
80
,
85
,
220
,
224
–5,
228
,
230
–31,
241
,
242
,
313
–14

Pakistan
168

Panasonic
100
,
167
,
170
–71

Paris Peace Conference (1919)
69

Park Geun-hye
206

Patrick, Hugh
165

pay
90
,
93
,
118
,
127
,
155
,
166
,
186
,
213
,
307
,
309

discrimination against women
164
–5,
205
,
213

merit
89
,
155

seniority
47
,
48
,
164

Peace Boat group
285

Peace Preservation Law
72

Pearl Harbor
73
–4,
78

pensions
146
,
161
,
162
–3,
331
n19

per capita income
see
living standards/per capita income

Peres, Shimon
51

Perry, Matthew
61
,
64
,
66

Black Ships of
64
,
238
,
303

Pearl Harbor attack as Japanese revenge for
74

Philippines
57
,
73
,
119
,
166
,
167
,
205
,
219

Pitsuwan, Surin
313

PLA
Daily
312

poetry
63
,
74

haiku
45
–6,
63

political disenchantment
279
–89

population of Japan
119
,
160
–61,
168

pornography
194

Port Arthur
70

Portuguese
59
–60

post office privatization
139
,
148
,
149
–53,
158
–9

Potsdam Declaration
252

Powell, Colin
196

Prestowitz, Clyde
97

prisoners of war
228
–9

prisons
122
,
227

productivity
xxx
,
36
,
90
,
96
,
120
,
145
,
164
,
179
,
307
,
310
,
331
n25

property

housing
see
housing

prices
100
–101,
102
,
103

speculation
100
,
102

prostitution
83
–4

and ‘comfort women’ used by military
230
,
243

and kabuki
68

public expenditure
145

public works
103
,
127
,
145
–6,
148
,
151
,
155
–6,
328
n26

Pyle, Kenneth
56
,
234

Qatar
82

Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree
109

Rakuten
167
,
273

rangaku-sha
(scholars of western learning)
62

rape
78
,
211
,
229
,
230
,
248
–9

gang
211