Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (415 page)

Hirata T
suke, 99, 127, 128

Hiro, Prince, 685–86

Hirohata Tadakata, 298–99

Hirohito, emperor of Japan (Sh
wa emperor):

abdication issue and, 550, 552–53, 571–73, 605–7, 618, 628, 634, 649–50

as above natural law, 81

accession of, 171

advisers of, 16, 29, 79, 178–81, 207;
see also
court group ancestor worship and, 38–39, 62, 69, 119–20, 122

“approval rating” of, 166

attempted assassination of, 140–41, 248

benevolence ascribed to, 145, 160–61, 309, 527

biological laboratory of, 60–61

birth of, 21

as “brain” of nation, 293–94

brothers of, 16, 21, 23–25, 35, 38, 41, 50, 139, 382

cartoons of, 566

charisma of, 441–42, 525

chief secretaries of, 172–73

classmates of, 38

clothing of, 89, 345, 349, 437, 543, 554, 621, 629, 631, 637, 653

coming-of-age ceremony of, 83, 84–86

concubinage practice ended by, 145

constitutional law studied by, 77–81

as constitutional monarch, 219, 566

on criteria for prime ministers, 253–55

as crown prince, 39

and cult of the emperor, 27–28

death of, 3, 684–85

declining media interest in, 659–60

depression of, 493

described, 86–87, 89, 564, 620–21, 629–30, 631

divinity of, 7–8, 49, 90, 119–20, 191, 192–93, 293, 294, 314, 326, 550, 561, 638–39

domestic tours of, 135–39, 156, 196, 620–26, 628–31, 633–38, 645

early childhood of, 22–25

economics taught to, 130–31

elementary education of, 36–38, 43, 81, 89

emperor theory taught to, 63–65;
see also
emperor theory engagement of, 95–96

enthronement of,
see
enthronement ritualsethics lessons of, 66–69

eulogy of, 685

in European tour,
see
European tour of 1921

fascism disavowed by, 255

50th anniversary in reign of, 678–79

as figurehead, 13–14, 342

funeral of, 686

George V as model for, 115–19

Hattori's assessment of, 61

high-command structure and, 388–89

history as taught to, 70–76

“humanization” of, 620, 624, 638, 645

identity of, 38–39, 49, 59, 89–91, 650

illnesses of, 157, 493–94, 684–85

image of, 106–7, 112–13, 127, 166–67, 205–6, 225, 341, 421, 527, 553, 660

imperial family of, 49–51

imperial tradition (
K
so k
s
) and, 38–39

imperial way (
k
d
) and, 10–11

inarticulateness of, 88, 639

insect specimen book of, 60

instructed to rule as regent, 127–29

“instruction for the emperor” of, 57–59, 90–91

intellectual interests and limitations of, 90, 114–15

intelligence of, 81, 85, 114–15

intelligence system of, 390–92

international law studied by, 366

Japanese people's relationship with, 7, 9–10

and knowledge of Pearl Harbor attack, 421–22

MacArthur compared with, 547–48

male heir problem of, 270–71, 273

marriage of, 143–44

martial spirit lacking in, 84, 86, 89

mask of silence of, 87–88

media depiction of, 127, 135–36, 205–6, 384, 548, 549–51, 553, 564–66

Meiji model and, 80–81, 89

methodological nature of, 61

middle school education of, 85

Mikami's Meiji lectures to, 131–33

military and,
see
military, militarism military education of, 25–26, 37, 41, 43–49, 51, 52, 54, 57, 58, 89, 135

as model of morality, 139

monarchy and sovereignty as seen by, 293–95

“Monologues” of, 2–5, 217–18, 589–92, 678

moral sense of, 62, 65

movements and countenance of, 87–88

and mutiny of 1936, 299–301, 304–5

and myth as mechanism of power, 121–22

name of, 21

Nara's description of, 86–87

natural history and science as interests of, 58, 60–61, 90, 283

near-sightedness of, 89

nervousness and chronic psychological stress of, 89, 114–15, 133, 213–14, 259

newsreels reviewed by, 392, 451

New Year's rescript of, 560–64

Nogi's influence on, 43

Ogasawara's evaluation of, 85–86

on organ theory, 294–95

parenthood of, 145, 270–71, 533–34

personality of, 11–12, 25, 38–39, 62, 65, 84–90, 111, 132, 188, 371–72, 439–42, 485–86, 520, 535, 547–48

personal leadership by, 439–42

physical appearance of, 81, 89, 136, 195, 620

physical exercise of, 114

physical weakness of, 37, 48

piety of, 122

poems of, 6, 638

policy deliberation of, 388–89

political attitudes of, 91–93

portrait of, 201, 555

posture of, 136

and practice of withholding assent, 152

prisoner-of-war issue and, 448

private life of, 145, 270–71

pseudo-public appearances of, 196–97

public regard for, 554

racial beliefs of, 68–69, 148–49

recreational activities of, 283, 451–52

as regent, 123

religion and, 2, 31, 38, 72, 114, 122, 422–23, 461, 553–54, 653

rescripts of, 305, 338, 383, 384, 433–38, 441, 458–59, 469, 495, 525–30, 539, 546, 560–64, 591, 653

as resolute in fighting on, 480–81, 501

reticence and shyness of, 84, 86–88, 111, 132, 441

and right of supreme command, 54–56, 154–55, 512, 517

secret briefings of, 626, 655, 673–74

“special lectures” ordered by, 135