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Yamashita Tomoyuki [H
bun], 284, 300, 304, 481, 582

“Yamato spirit,” 52, 483

Yamazaki Iwao, 551

Yamazaki Kakujir
, 130–31

Yanagawa Heisuke, 332

Yanaihara Tadao, 336

Yashida Masuz
, 434

Yasuhito,
see
Chichibu, Prince

Yasui T
ji, 513

Yasukuni Shrine, 622, 653, 682–83

Yasukuni War Museum, 683

Yasuoka Masahiro, 102, 164, 253, 525

Yawata Steel strike, 52

Yin Ju-keng, 286, 322

Yi Un, 35

Yoda Shiro, 258

Yokohama B
eki Shimp
,
200

Yokota Hideo, 141

Yokota Kisabur
, 573

Yomiuri-H
chi,
551, 572, 573

Yomiuri shinbun,
99

Yonai Mitsumasa, 297, 301, 306, 321, 345, 350, 355, 357, 371, 373, 430, 465, 501, 509–10, 511, 515, 583, 584, 585, 586, 590, 597

Yoshida Shigeru, 116–17, 542, 564–65, 570, 574, 575, 624, 633, 634, 636, 642, 643, 649, 650, 651, 653, 656, 668, 670

Dulles's meeting with, 640–41

Yoshida Yutaka, 652

Yoshida Zengo, 423

Yoshihashi Kaiz
, 482, 491

Yoshihito, emperor of Japan (Taish
emperor), 21–22, 53, 80, 92, 129, 130, 132, 144, 179, 181, 186, 198, 271, 554

accession of, 40

death of, 171

education of, 37

Hirohito's relationship with, 24, 25

mental and physical illness of, 88, 93, 94, 96, 104, 106, 123

“Young Japan and Its Global Mission” (editorial), 200

Yuasa Kurahei, 141, 298–99, 304, 306, 355, 370–71

Yukawa Hideki, 638

Yuzonsha, 98

 

zaibatsu (capital groups), 95, 311

About the Author

H
ERBERT
P. B
IX
earned his Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University. For the past thirty years, he has written extensively on modern and contemporary Japanese history in leading journals in the United States and Japan. He has taught Japanese history at a number of American and Japanese universities, most recently at Harvard as well as Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and is a professor of history and sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

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HIROHITO AND THE MAKING OF MODERN JAPAN
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