Read Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Online
Authors: Herbert P. Bix
Tags: #General, #History, #Biography & Autobiography, #Military, #World War II
European tour of 1921, 84, 95, 96, 99â100, 103â22, 173, 465
British segment of, 106â7, 108, 110â11, 115â19
and disavowal of emperor's divinity, 119
French segment of, 108â9
Hara and, 99â100, 103, 104, 106, 110, 113, 114
Hirohito's behavior in, 114â15
Hirohito's grooming for, 105â6, 113
Hirohito's image and, 106â7, 112â13
Italian segment of, 109â10
itinerary of, 106, 108
in Japanese press, 110â12, 114
necessity for, 105
opposition to, 103â4, 114
outbound passage of, 107â8
as public relations campaign, 110
return voyage in, 110
success of, 113â14, 117
European tour of 1971, 672
evolution, theory of, 60, 62
“Explanatory Materials for the Emperor Concerning the War Situation,” 390
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Fall of Port Arthur, The, 210
Far Eastern Army, Soviet, 259, 399
Far Eastern Commission, 568, 571, 609, 622
fascism, 13, 110, 374, 497
Hirohito's disavowal of, 255
Italian, 202, 255, 280
Japanese-style, 102, 254â55, 499, 588
Japan's national image and, 280
Fellers, Bonner F., 542, 567, 582â86, 589, 591, 607, 679
Field Marshals and Fleet Admirals Conference, 101
Field Service Code (
senjinkun
), 281, 435
Fiji, 450, 454
Finance Ministry, Japanese, 588, 699
Finland, 598
Five Ministers Conference, 381
Five-Power Naval Arms Limitations Treaty, 101, 147
Foch, Ferdinand, 109
Ford, Gerald, 676
Foreign Ministry, Japanese, 68, 84, 106, 134, 148, 224, 230, 236, 241, 286, 312, 336, 337, 352, 379, 389, 429, 434, 467, 480, 508, 511, 515, 516, 550, 570, 588, 627
War Termination Liaison Committee of, 541â42, 584
Foreign Ministry, Soviet, 393
“Foreign Policy of the Empire,” 308
Foreign Policy Research Council, 128
Four-Power Treaty, 147
France, 9, 147, 221, 246, 308, 321, 355, 356, 369, 376, 379, 381, 616
Hirohito's 1921 visit to, 106â8
Freemasonry, 226
French Indochina, 110, 362, 368, 371, 375â79, 394â95, 397, 398, 400, 403, 404, 411, 425, 428, 602
Fuad, Khedive, 107
Fujii Shigeru, 395
Fujita Hisanori, 542
Fujiyama Raita, 323
Fukazawa Shichir
, 661â62, 663, 665â66, 667
Fukiage Gardens, 60
Fukuda Hikosuke, 140, 214â15
Fukuda Takeo, 673
Fukuzawa Yukichi, 70
“Fundamental Policy for Dealing with the China Incident,” 344
Furansu daikakumei shi
(History of the great French Revolution) (Mizukuri), 76
Furuhashi Hironoshin, 638
F
ry
mutan
(A Dream of courtly elegance) (Fukazawa), 663â65
Fushimi Hiroyasu, Prince, 45, 50, 209, 248, 299, 376, 402
Futara Yoshinori, 121
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Gama, Vasco da, 68
Gascoigne, Alvary, 609
Gayn, Mark, 620
General Headquarters (GHQ), U.S., 542, 543, 546, 549, 557, 560, 574, 589, 619, 621, 622, 623, 625, 630, 633, 635, 647
CIE section of, 555â56, 559, 615, 619
draft constitution and, 568, 571, 576
era-name system and, 679â80
Hirohito's New Year's rescript and, 561â62
reforms by, 551â52
and reshaping of history, 556â57, 559
Tokyo tribunal and, 582, 583, 587
General Military Ordinance Number 1, 34
“General Principles of National Policy,” 312
General Treaty for the Renunciation of War,
see
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 207, 360
George V, king of England, 103, 650
as example for Hirohito, 115â19, 188
George VI, king of England, 112, 340
German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 686
Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany), 672, 686
Germany, Imperial, 9, 45, 83, 91, 147, 349, 496, 499, 534
Germany, Nazi, 244, 255, 264, 265, 269, 280, 289, 307â8, 373, 374, 375, 377, 396, 413, 421, 439, 465, 469, 476, 529, 601
allied defeat of, 487, 490
denazification program in, 618
Japan's military alliance with, 350, 351, 352â53, 356, 357, 380â84
Soviet nonaggression pact with, 354, 393, 396
Soviet Union invaded by, 394â95, 410
surrender of, 497â98, 521
war successes of, 355â57, 367â68, 369, 453â54
Germany, occupied, 618
Germany, Weimar, 135, 202, 203
Gibraltar, 108
Gilbert Islands, 468, 470, 472
Gog
, Operation, 449, 460
Golden Pheasant Academy (
Kinkei Gakuin
), 164
Got
Fumio, 255
Grand Ceremonies Commission, 187â88
Great Britain, 1, 3, 39, 51, 146, 149, 209, 226, 246, 250, 255, 264, 265, 268, 278, 308, 309, 312, 314, 321, 341, 343, 344, 352, 357, 376, 378, 425, 434, 439, 489, 490, 492, 495, 509, 522, 530, 535, 559, 578, 592, 600, 646, 650
Four-Power Treaty signed by, 147
Hirohito's 1921
visit to, 106â7, 108, 110â11, 115â19
Hirohito's 1971
visit to, 672
Japan's 1902 alliance with, 147, 148, 150â51, 382
London Naval Treaty and, 210
in prelude to World War II, 388, 395â98, 400, 402, 403, 405, 406â7, 409, 414, 427
Shanghai Incident and, 251
U.S. destroyers-for-bases deal with, 381
Washington treaties and, 176â77
Great Depression, 228, 245, 250, 265
Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere, 397, 434, 464, 595
Greater East Asia Ministry, Japanese, 457
Greater East Asia War,
see
World War II, Asia-Pacific theater of
Great Food-Offering Ceremony, 686
Great Wall, 258, 259, 260
Green Buds of Hiroshima, The
(
Hiroshima no midori no me
) (Imamura and
muri), 637
Grew, Joseph C., 259, 337, 428, 500, 504, 518, 519â20
Hirohito as seen by, 498â99
Guadalcanal, 446â47, 454, 463, 464
Battle of, 455â62
Guam, 9, 436, 445, 453, 456, 475
Gunrei,
34
Â
hakk
ichiu
(benevolent rule), 200, 372
Hakusukinoe, battle of, 623
Hamaguchi Y
k
, 208, 209, 219, 225, 228, 304