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postage stamps, and postwar icons in Japan,
255
,
306n23

posters, propaganda,
79
,
81
,
100

Potsdam Declaration,
141
,
259

Pride: The Fatal Moment
(film),
281n9
,
284n15

Prince of Wales
(battleship),
92

prisoners of war (POWs),
117

Dutch,
39

Japanese,
52
,
282n11

U.K.,
38
,
39
,
282n11

U.S.,
114
,
117
,
131
,
140
,
182
,
282n11
,
287n4
,
294n38

propaganda, Japanese.
See
Japanese propaganda

proverbs,
230–31

“public history,”
112
,
122
,
180
,
183–84

Punch
,
36
,
37
,
38

Puraidu: Unmei no Toki
(film).
See Pride
:
The Fatal Moment
(film)

purity,
49–52
,
58
,
63–64

Puyi, Emperor,
67
,
265

Pyle, Ernie,
30
,
52

racism,
28–64
,
118
,
134

in American view of Japanese,
29–37
,
33
,
34
,
38–40
,
40–47
,
61–63

and anti-orientalism in West,
46–47

and attribution of special powers,
44–46

and “code words,”
43–44

and dehumanization of the enemy,
34–37
,
38–40

and demonization of the enemy,
52–53
,
56
,
56–58
,
57

in immediate post–World War II period,
61–64

in Japanese propaganda,
72
,
80

in Japanese view of self and others,
47–53
,
54–57
,
56–61
,
63–64
,
266

and notion of purity,
49–52

in social sciences,
42–43
,
58–60

subtle forms of,
32
,
304n16

in treatment of Germans vs. Japanese,
29–31

and underestimation of intentions/capabilities,
40–42

Radford Doctrine,
217

radiation poisoning,
208

radiation sickness,
166
,
173
,
182–83

Rape of Nanking,
68
,
76
,
99
,
105
,
106
,
114
,
116
,
118
,
129
,
133
,
159
,
273n1
,
281–82n10
,
291n21
,
295n43

Realpolitik
,
13
,
69
,
71

Record of a Living Being
(film),
156

“Red China,”
127

“Red Peril,”
71
,
108
,
266

“Red purge,”
201–2

“reinventing tradition,”
80

Reischauer, Edwin,
9
,
11–12
,
197

Rekishigaku Kenky
Å«
kai,
286n23

“renovationist bureaucrats,”
268–69

reparations, claims on Japan,
127–28
,
131–32
,
134
,
280n7
,
285n17

Repulse
(cruiser),
92

“reverse course” in occupied Japan,
189
,
201–2
,
224
,
295–96n2

right-wing revisionism in Japan,
14–16
,
110–11
,
179
,
280n6
,
280–81n8
,
281n9
,
281–82n10
,
284n15
,
289n12

rice riots,
253–54

Rolland, Romain,
107

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
37
,
52
,
56
,
56

Russo-Japanese War (1904–5),
69–70
,
73
,
86–88
,
87

Ryukyu Islands,
193
,
219

Sacco-Vanzetti case,
17

“sacrifices,”
119
,
130

Saipan,
282n12

Saji Takashi,
237
,
248

San Francisco System,
186
,
188–201

sanitizing of Japanese war crimes,
108
,
123–29
,
285n18

satire, Japanese tradition of,
228–53

in medieval “What's Fashionable in the Capital Now,”
228–30

postwar parodies,
230–33

in wartime songs,
302n5

See also
cartoon panels from
iroha karuta
game

Sat
ō
Eisaku,
194
,
214
,
216
,
218
,
219
,
223

Schell, Jonathan,
163

scholarship

comparative studies,
16–22

English-language Asian studies,
6

and historical revisionism,
14–16

modernization theory,
9–13
,
17
,
20–22

science

applied,
254

and Hachiya's
Hiroshima Diary
,
166–67
,
169

and Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing,
140

promotion of, in postwar period,
142–44

Science Digest
,
30
,
31

“Science in American Life” (exhibition),
179

scorched-earth tactics,
122

“second industrial revolution,”
88–92
,
89
,
91
,
268

segregation,
29

self-censorship,
75
,
180
,
237
,
267

self-recrimination,
122

Sens
ō
Sekinin Kenky
Å«
(quarterly),
106

September 11 terrorist attacks,
256
,
262
,
263

Seven Samurai
(film),
156

sex, commercialized,
251

Shigemitsu Mamoru,
139
,
253

Shinmin no Michi
,
80

Shimizu Ikutaro,
215

Shinran,
254

Shinto,
82
,
109
,
113
,
250
,
252

Shiohara Tokisabur
ō
,
284n15

Shiseid
ō
(cosmetics firm),
95

“Sh
ō
wa Day,”
126
,
284n16

Sh
ō
wakan (National Sh
ō
wa Memorial Museum),
123

Sh
ō
wa Keny
Å«
kai,
20

shunt
ō
,
203–4

Singapore,
32
,
38
,
41
,
60
,
66
,
78
,
118

Sino-Japanese War (1894–95),
69–70
,
86
,
86–88

Sino-Soviet split,
213

slogans,
75
,
187–88
,
212
,
228

Smithsonian Institution,
37
,
118
,
163–64

and censorship,
178–80

Enola Gay
exhibit at,
118
,
176–84

Social Darwinism,
69

Socialist Party,
195
,
203
,
204
,
209
,
296n4

social sciences, racism in,
42–43
,
58–60

Socrates,
25

S
ō
hy
ō
(General Council of Trade Unions),
203

Soldier and Peasant in Japan
(E.H. Norman),
7

songs,
31
,
33
,
44
,
66
,
75
,
100
,
231–33
,
273n3
,
302n5

Southeast Asia,
19
,
48
,
58
,
73
,
76
,
263
,
265

South Korea,
128
,
211
,
263

South Manchurian Railway,
15
,
67
,
86

Soviet Union,
67
,
71
,
113
,
117
,
127
,
136
,
163
,
195–96
,
198
,
199
,
213
,
222
,
266

and disputed postwar islands,
297n10

and Japanese POWs,
282n11

Stalin, Joseph,
213

state capitalism,
266

state socialism,
84

The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi
(film),
100
,
101
,
104

Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”),
223

strikes,
210
,
211

Student May Day,
254

“subordinate independence,”
198

Sumitomo,
88
,
268

“Summer Flowers” (Hara Tamiki),
150

Surrealism,
95

surrender, Japanese response to,
167–68

Switzerland,
118

Taish
ō
Democracy,
93–94
,
102
,
253

Taiwan,
128
.
See also
Formosa

Takigawa incident,
254

Tanabe Hajime,
254

Tanaka Hisao,
248

Tanizaki Junichir
ō
,
275n12

technology,
18
,
82
,
88–89
,
254

technonationalism,
222

Terao Yoshitake,
237
,
248

terrorism,
262
,
267

textbooks,
105
,
110
,
131–32
,
280n6
,
280n8
,
285n20
,
289n12

textiles, Japanese propaganda on.
See
fabrics, Japanese propaganda on

“thought police,”
78

“Three Nonnuclear Principles,”
216

Time
magazine,
36
,
39
,
46

Tin Pan Alley,
31
,
46

T
ō
ge Sankichi,
151

T
ō
g
ō
Heihachir
ō
,
73
,
74

T
ō
h
ō
studio,
100

T
ō
j
ō
Hideki,
117
,
120
,
168
,
203
,
209
,
244
,
267
,
269
,
281n9
,
284n15

Tokyo air raids,
107
,
180
,
273n2
,
290n16
.
See also
air raids

Tokyo war-crimes trials,
9
,
15
,
66–67
,
114–16
,
119
,
123
,
124
,
126
,
129
,
142
,
153–54
,
168
,
180
,
281n9
,
282n11
,
284n15
,
295n43

Tolischus, Otto,
14

“total war,”
84
,
201
,
255
,
267
,
268

Touvier, Paul,
118

Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security,
129
,
132
,
189
,
192–194
,
197
,
207
,
209–12
,
214
,
216–19

Trinity College (Cambridge, U.K.),
8

Tripartite Pact,
67

Trotskyism,
213

Truman, Harry S,
155
,
180

Tsunoda Jun,
14

Ukai Nobushige,
195

ultranationalism,
82
,
172

Unit 731 (research unit),
106
,
123
,
124
,
133
,
283–84n14

United Nations,
192
,
196
,
208
,
216
,
288n12
,
300n29

United States

compared to imperial Japan,
261–62

invasion of Iraq by (
See
Iraq, U.S. invasion and occupation of
)

and Japanese expansionism,
68
,
71
,
72

Japanese relations with, from late 1950s until mid-1970s,
212–20

and 1955 System,
189
,
201
,
207
,
211

as one of ABCD powers,
113

and rise of Japanese “superstate,”
220–23
,
225

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