Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (410 page)

Atholl, duke of, 108, 110–11

Atlantic Charter, 404

atomic bomb, 496, 500, 501, 511, 512, 516, 520, 522, 523, 530

Cold War and, 508

surrender decision and, 529

Truman on use of, 502, 524–25

atrocities, see war crimes and atrocities Australia, 376, 423, 446, 447, 454, 582, 592

Austria-Hungary, 83

Autonomous Committee for Defense

Against Communism, 286

Aya, Prince, 686

Ayabe Tachiki, 461

 

Baba Kikutar
, 61

Badoglio, Pietro, 465

Baillie, Hugh, 546, 547, 551

bakufu, 73–74

balloon bomb weapon program, 477, 481–82

Bank of Japan, 130–31, 252, 503, 669

Bank of Korea, 95

Bank of Tokyo, 588

bansei ikkei myth, 121

“Basic Policy for Future Direction of the War,” 493

Bataan, 447–48, 614

death march in, 448

Bee, HMS, 340

Belgium, 106, 108, 109, 356

Bells of Nagasaki, The (Nagasaki no kane) (Nagai), 637

Benedict XV, Pope, 109

Berlin blockade (1948), 607

Bernard, Henri, 610

Blacklist, Operation, 545

Blakeney, Ben Bruce, 598, 601

“Blood Pledge Corps,” 252

Blyth, Reginald, 619–20

Board of Field Marshals and Fleet Admirals, 151, 476–77

Board of Peerage and Heraldry, 292

“body smashing” (taiatari), 452, 480

Bolshevik Revolution, see Russian Revolution

Bonin Islands, 470, 476, 483, 510

Borneo, 445

Bose, Chandra, 595

Boshin Edict (1908), 65

Bougainville, 446, 462, 463, 471

Boxer Protocol, 9

Boxer uprising, 9

Bradley, Omar, 636

Brines, Russell, 552, 572

British Malaya, 375, 400, 423–24, 433–34, 436

brothel scandal, Imperial Diet and, 160, 183

Buddhists, Buddhism, 30

Nichiren sect of, 11, 163–64, 168–69

Bungei shunj
, 677

bureaucratic reform movement, 164

Bureau of Military Affairs, 46

Bureau of Shrines and Religion, 31

Burma, 446, 448, 452, 470, 473, 474–75, 487, 651

Burma Road, 385, 446

Burn All, Kill All, Steal All (Sank
)
, 657

bushid
(way of the warrior), 34, 36, 43, 51–52, 59, 185

Byrnes, James F., 498, 499, 504, 518–19, 520, 526, 541, 543, 585

 

Cabinet Advisory Council, 503

Cabinet Intelligence Bureau, 503, 508

Cabinet Planning Board, 322, 327, 387, 422

Cabinet Regulations, 34

Cairo Declaration, 501

Caroline Islands, 308, 453, 468

Carter, Jimmy, 681

Casablanca Conference, 497

Celebes, 445

Central Association of Cultural Bodies, 163

Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 107, 454

Chang Hsueh-liang, 220, 228, 235, 240–41, 258, 307

Chang Ku-feng Incident, 348

Chang Tso-lin, 207, 214, 215–17, 220, 231, 590, 614

Charter Oath of Five Articles (1868), 63–64, 80, 563, 566

Chemical Warfare Service (CWS), U.S., 616

chemical weapons, 349, 361–62, 367, 594, 616–17

Cherry Blossom Society, 243

Chiang Kai-shek, 184–85, 241, 272, 286, 306, 307, 323, 332, 339, 343, 344, 345, 347, 349, 350, 353, 357, 359, 368, 372, 373, 385, 394, 403, 404, 426, 428, 449, 480, 594, 595, 616, 636

Chicago Daily News, 341

Chichibu, Prince, 21, 23, 26, 100–101, 283–84, 299, 382, 605

German alliance favored by, 368

Hirohito's relationship with, 25, 300

on Meiji as grandparent, 24

secret reports on, 178–79

China, Imperial, 8–9

in Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95, 33, 70, 74, 210, 280, 432

China, Nationalist (Kuomintang), 169, 176, 177, 184–85, 205, 209, 214, 219, 220, 223, 224, 228, 250, 272, 285, 309, 347, 396, 444, 495, 559, 599

in civil war with Communists, 272

Communist defeat of, 636

Hirota cabinet policy for, 306–7

Japanese perception of, 306–7

Japan's withdrawal of recognition of, 345

in Japan-U.S. talks, 428

Manchuria conflict and, 236, 241, 242, 248, 249, 259

navy policy for, 311–12

Tangku truce agreement signed by, 272

war crimes trials and, 593–95, 614

see also
Chiang Kai-shek; Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45; Taiwan

China, People's Republic of, 639, 648, 656, 662, 683

atomic bomb tested by, 671

Cultural Revolution in, 671

Japan's relations with, 672–73, 681

in Korean War, 643

China, Republic of, 3, 4, 12, 14, 15, 54, 68, 70, 92, 135, 146, 147, 148, 150–51, 158

see also
China, Nationalist; Taiwan China Garrison Force, Japanese, 285, 287, 306–7, 321

China War,
see
Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45

Chinda Sutemi, 84, 102, 106, 114, 115, 129, 142, 149, 172, 184, 216

Chinese Eastern Railway, 272

Ch
jiri Kazumoto, 304

Ch
ry
, 579

Ch
sh
, 100