Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (54 page)

by US servicemen on Okinawa
248
–9

Reagan, Ronald
97

recession

British
128

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

US
102

Red Purge
81
,
85

Reischauer, Edwin
116

renewable energy
271
,
272
–3

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

Resona bank
143
,
328
n22

retirement age
163
,
164

revisionists

and educational propaganda
230
–33

and the Japanese economy
96
–7

and school textbooks
230
–31,
232
–3

and World War II
225
–9

rice riots
72

Rikuzentakata
3
–5,
293
,
294
,
295
–301

2011 earthquake
5
,
6
–7

Capital Hotel
4
,
5
,
7
,
12
,
25
,
26
,
295
–6

Fumonji temple
27
,
297
–8

gymnasium
10
–11

pines
3
–4,
11
,
26
–8; Lone Pine (
ippon matsu
)
12
,
299
–301

reconstruction money
298

Takata Elementary School
10

Takata High School
10

tsunami of 1960
296

tsunami of 2011
xxxii
,
7
–12,
24
–5,
293
,
294
,
296
–9; clean-up operation
25
–6,
296
; commemoration of the dead
27
–8; the dead and missing
10
–11,
12
,
20
,
21
,
27
,
296
,
297
; government compensation
297
; rebuilding
298
–9

tsunamis in history
3

riots
72

robots
94

Rockefeller, Nelson
177

Rogoff, Kenneth
177

Romney, Mitt
35
,
127

Ronald Reagan
, USS
258

Russia
125
,
167
,
312

Cold War
see
Cold War

and Japan
312
,
330
–31n14,
335
n11,
337
n24,
341
n16; Russo-Japanese war
64
,
68
,
70
,
228

Ryukyu kingdom
49
,
247
see also
Okinawa

Saipan
74

Saito, Yosuke
260

Sakaguchi, Chikara
160

sake
25
,
46
,
148
,
222
,
299

salaries
see
pay

Samsung
167
,
170
,
172
,
173

samurai
37
,
43
,
50
,
59
,
61
,
63
,
71
,
150

bushido
(samurai code)
38
–9,
138

Fukuzawa
xxx
,
63
–6

‘samurai with a quiff’
see
Koizumi, Junichiro

San Francisco
65

Peace Treaty (1951)
252

Sansom, George
58

Sapporo Snow Festival
239
,
240

sarin
108
–9

Sasaki, Kazuyoshi
4
–5,
7
,
9
,
11
,
12
,
26
–8,
295
,
297
–8,
299
,
300

Sasaki, Miwako
11

Sato, Seizaburo
290
–93

Satsuma
247

savings
163

cash hoarding
114
–15

science, western
61
,
62
–3,
65
,
85

vs Chinese
62
–3

Scientology, Church of
109

Seike, Atsushi
164
,
166
,
331
n27

Sekigahara, battle of
59

Self Defence Forces
194
,
197
,
239
–42,
282
,
286

Air
242

Maritime
241

Sendai
290
,
294

Sengoku, Yoshito
271

seniority pay
47
,
48
,
164

Senkaku islands
251
–3,
311
–13,
316

Senoue, Toshiki
15
,
20
,
21
,
25
,
28
,
175
,
289

Seoul
221

service industry
170
,
331
n25

workers
166

sex industry
194
,
215
see also
prostitution

shares
99
,
100
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
118
,
130
,
142
,
143
,
307
,
308
see also
stock market, Japan

Sharp
171
–2,
173

Shenzhen
235

Shikibu, Murasaki:
The Tale of Genji
208

Shikoku
35
,
252

Shimizu, Masataka
18
,
267
,
268

Shimizu, Yukio
5

Shimodate, Hiromi
23
–4,
293
–5

Shimotsubo, Kumiko
180
–83

Shinkansen
bullet train
94

Shinto
xxvii
,
5
–6,
33
,
46
–7,
226

shipbuilding industry
86

Shirahase, Sawako
283
–4

shopping coupons
103

Shotoku, Prince
58

Showa era
141

end of
104

shushoku katsudo
(graduate screening/mass hiring)
180
–81,
192

Singapore
73
,
82
,
83

single mothers
213

Social Darwinism
67

social equality
see
equality/inequality

Social Masses Party
73

social welfare
212
,
213
,
327
n40

Softbank
173
,
272
–3,
311

solar power
272
–3

Son, Masayoshi
173
,
272
–3,
311

Sony
88
–90,
167
,
170
–72,
173
,
271

Soros, George
98

South Korea
129
,
162
,
205
,
206

and Japan
xxx
,
83
,
129
,
252
,
323
n9,
337
n24,
342
n37; and Abe
312
; co-hosting of 2002 World Cup
231
; and ‘comfort women’
243
; continuing hatred of Japanese
219
; electronics industry
167
,
170
,
172
; Seoul demonstration at Koizumi’s Yasukuni pilgrimage
221
; trade
172

Speed
(film)
176

Sprint Nextel
311

Standard & Poor’s
123

state identification system
288

state pensions
146
,
161
,
162
–3,
329
n19

steel industry
86
–7,
144

stock market, Japan
114
,
115
,
117
–18,
143
,
307
,
308
see also
shares

crash
100
,
118
,
141

Nikkei stock average
100
,
117
–18,
325
n1

Stringer, Sir Howard
170
,
171

suffrage
72

Sugimoto, Yoshio
xxviii
,
50
,
122
,
197

Sugita, Gempaku
62

suicides
192
,
248

Sulzberger Ice Shelf
8

Sumitomo Chemical
90

sumo
45
,
51

Sun Yat-sen
70

Susquehanna
, USS
66

Suzuki, Yoshihiko
151
,
152

Switzerland
xx
–xxi

Tafel Anatomia
62

Tahara, Sochiro
134

Taisho, emperor of Japan
71

Taisho era
71
–2

Taiwan
68
,
83
,
252
,
342
n37

Takahashi, Kageyasu
61

Takamura, Kotaro
74

Takashi, Yoshiaki
288

Takato, Nahoko
194

Takeda, Ippei
158
,
168
–9,
178

Takenaka, Heizo
134
,
135
,
138
,
140
,
141
–4,
147

Tanaka, Kakuei
137

Tanaka, Makiko
135
,
328
n6

Tanaka, Naoki
56
–7

Tanaka, Yasuo
146

Tanaka, Yoshikazu
170

Tanigaki, Sadakazu
282

tansu
savings
114

Tase, Yasuhiro
137
–8

Tasker, Peter
124
–5

taxes
127
,
128
,
146

sales tax increases
283

Taya, Teizo
326
n11

tea ceremonies
xxiii

Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company)
14
–15,
17
–18,
19
,
262
–4,
282

contract worker use at Fukushima
265
–6

faking of safety data
266
–7

lack of transparency over Fukushima
267
,
268

nationalization of
274

and the parliamentary enquiry
261
,
266

terrorism
104
,
108
–9,
189
,
195

Thatcher, Margaret
141

toads
99
–100

Toba, Futoshi
10
,
28
,
300

Toba, Taiga
10

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

Tojo, Hideki
81
,
225
–8,
229

Tojo, Yuko
225
,
226
–9

Tokai nuclear power plant
18
,
266
–7

Tokugawa shogunate
59
–60,
61
–2,
63

Iemitsu Tokugawa
60

Ieyasu Tokugawa
59

Yoshimune Tokugawa
61
–2

Tokyo
xxv
–xxvi,
xxix
,
55
,
105

1923 earthquake
72
,
77
,
304

2011 earthquake
7
,
13
,
15
–17,
18
–19,
25

ancient Edo
59
,
62

Chateau Joel Robuchon
213

as a collection of villages
xxv

energy conservation
270

and Fukushima Daiichi
17
–18; contingency evacuation plans
263

Ginza
101

Grand Hyatt Hotel
203

Hibiya Public Hall
77

Higashi Kitazawa
113

iodine-131 in water supply
275

Olympics: 1964
264
; 2020
317

post-World War II
83
–4

power shortages after the quake
15
–16,
18

property prices
101

Shibuya
188

terrorist attack (1995)
104
,
108
–9

Tower
94

War Crimes Tribunal
81
,
225
,
227
–8

World War II bombing
70
,
77
,
79
,
304

Tokyo Electric Power Company
see
Tepco

Tokyo Story
95

Tomizuka, Kiyoshi
85

Toyoda, Akio
169
–70

Toyoda, Eiji
92

Toyoda, Kiichiro
87

Toyota
87
,
92
,
145
,
170
,
235
,
270
,
309
–10,
317

TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
283
,
310
,
316

trains
16
,
25
,
83
,
209

bullet trains
34
,
94
,
137
,
198
,
270
; in
Speed/Shinkansen Explosion
176

underground
304

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
283
,
310
,
316