Tokyo Electric Power Company see Tepco
Tokyo Story 95
Tomizuka, Kiyoshi 85
Toyoda, Akio 169–70
Toyoda, Eiji 92
Toyoda, Kiichiro 87
Toyota 87, 92, 145, 170, 235, 270, 309–10, 317
TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) 283, 310, 316
trains 16, 25, 83, 209
bullet trains 34, 94, 137, 198, 270; in Speed/Shinkansen Explosion 176
underground 304
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) 283, 310, 316
Tsujimoto, Kiyomi 285
tsunamis 3, 6, 24
2011 tsunami xix, xx, xxi, 7–12, 13–14; the dead and missing 10–11, 12, 20, 21, 27, 296, 297; devastation 9, 11–12, 14, 21–6, 291, 298; and the economy 120, 315–16; and ETIC 188; freelance journalists during 288–9; nuclear crisis after see Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis; psychological effect on Japan 282–9, 304–5, 315–16; and public dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party and the political class 279–89; Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation 264; rebuilding homes, lives and communities after 291–301; Rikuzentakata see Rikuzentakata; Self Defence Forces deployment after 240, 282, 286; volunteer helpers 284–5, 294
divine protection from 298
following Chile earthquake 24, 296
Hokusai woodblock prints 8
Tsunoda, Tadanobu 40
Ugaki, Kazushige 72
unemployment rates xxix, 85, 120, 165
US xxxiv, 120
youth 165, 332n32
Unification Church 109
unions, labour 81, 90
Communist 237
United Nations
Gender Inequality Index 205, 334nn3–4
Security Council 55
United States of America
9/11 terrorist attacks 189, 195
and Afghanistan 195, 241
Cold War see Cold War
economic opportunity for women 205
economy xxxi–xxxiv, 119, 120, 128–9, 130, 145; Japanese threat 96–8; national debt xxi, 126–8
exceptionalism 35
foreign business acquisitions 174
Gulf War (1990) 55
and Japan xxxii, 32–3, 36, 46, 53, 55, 64–5, 249–51, 253–4; and Afghanistan 241; atomic bombing 34, 70, 74, 79, 224; ban on ‘collective self-defence’ 238, 241; Black Ships of Perry 64, 238, 303; and Chinese relations 238–9, 313, 316; and the Cold War 81, 84, 104, 239, 246; constitution of Japan 55, 80, 85, 237, 239, 241, 242–4, 313–14; and economic threat to the US 96–8; GIs and prostitutes 83–4; and Hatoyama and his government 244–7, 250–51, 253–4; and Hirohito 223; and industry 84–7, 91–2; and Iraq 240–41; and its post-war economy 83–6; Japanese economy and the US dollar 101–2; Japanese fear of US culture 189; Japanese view of US work ethic 96; and the Korean War 85–6, 239; Nadeshiko (soccer team) victory 206–7; oil embargo in response to Japanese offensive in Indochina 73; and Okinawa bases 247, 248–9, 250–51; Pearl Harbor attack 73–4, 78; and Perry 61, 64, 66, 74; post-war subordination to US 32–3, 74, 80–81, 82, 222–3, 290; reverse course policy 81, 236; San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951) 252; Security Treaty 93, 236–7, 313; and the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands 252, 313, 316; ‘sympathy budget’ for US troops 247; US–Japan Status of Forces Agreement 248–9; and US Freedom of Information Act 287; and US nuclear-armed warships 246; World War II 36, 69–70, 73–4, 77, 78–80, 290 see also World War II: Japan, the Pacific Campaign and; and the Yoshida Doctrine 85, 249; zaibatsu break-up 81, 92
Korean War 85–6, 87, 239
life expectancy 161
recession 102
steel industry 86–7
Trans-Pacific Partnership 283, 310, 316
unemployment xxxiv, 120
violent crime 96
women workers 164
World War II 36, 69–70, 74, 77, 78–80, 290
violence 104, 122, 204, 210 see also terrorism
domestic 211–12
rape see rape
US 96
Vogel, Ezra 158
Japan as Number One 95–6, 158
Voice 244
volunteer sector/volunteers 281, 284–6, 294
Wada, Shinichiro 211
wages see pay
Wall Street Journal 127
war criminals, Class-A 221, 225–6
Waseda University: Super Free club 211
Watanabe, Tsuneo 233
weapons 60–61
Wen Jiabao 235
Wilson, Woodrow 69
Wolf, Martin 115
Wolferen, Karel van: The Enigma of Japanese Power 97
women
behind the silk screen 202–16
child-raising 206
‘comfort women’ 230, 243
and divorce 211–12, 334n12
economic opportunity in Japan 204–5
and equality 202–16; discrimination 164–5, 205, 206–7, 213; UN Gender Inequality Index 205, 334nn3–4
and gender-specific role division 204
increasing power of 207–12
Japanese hostage in Iraq 194
legislators 205–6
and marriage 162, 164, 181, 205, 207, 209–10, 211, 213; and change of name 205
Nadeshiko team (soccer) 206–7
rights 205, 331n1
single mothers 213
socializing 214–16
and sport 206–7
workers 164–5, 181–2, 205, 206, 212–13, 214, 331nn26–27
work and workforce see employment
World Cup (2002) 231
World Trade Organization 156
World War II
Germany’s dealing with its history 219, 220–21, 222, 223, 224
Japan, the Pacific Campaign and 36, 69–70, 74, 77, 78–80; apologies for wartime atrocities 221–2, 235, 313; and Asian relations in light of Pacific War 219–35; atomic bombing 34, 70, 74, 79, 224; avoidance of full colonization after 32–3; battle of Midway 74; battle of Okinawa 74, 79, 248; guilt washed away with nuclear destruction 224; industrial destruction 79, 83; kamikaze pilots 21, 74, 79, 320–21n6; Pearl Harbor attack 73–4, 78; post-war subordination to US 32–3, 74, 80–81, 82, 222–3, 290; Potsdam Declaration 252; POW treatment 228–9; recovery from defeat xxii, 290; revisionist history 225–9; surrender 17, 32–3, 74, 79; Tokyo bombing 70, 77, 79, 304; Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal 81, 225, 227–8; unearthing wartime atrocities 229–31; US strafing 290; victimhood sense 224–5; war record glorification 222; war reparations 84, 221
and the US 36, 69–70, 73–4, 77, 78–80, 290
Wright, Frank Lloyd 180
Xi Jinping 312
Xi’an 312
yakuza gang 107
Yamada, Masahiro 191–2, 193–4, 211
Yamaguchi 236
Yamaichi Securities 100, 103
Yamashita, Shunichi 276
Yamato 86
Yamazaki, Heitazaemon 3
Yanagisawa, Hakuo 211
Yanai, Tadashi 118–19
Yasukuni shrine 221, 225–7, 234, 235, 244, 313
Yayoi people 48–9
yen strength 101–2, 145, 169, 270, 307, 308–9
Yokohama 64
Yokosuka 136, 139
Yomiuri 233
Yosano, Kaoru 16–17, 124
Yoshida, Masao 267, 268
Yoshida, Shigeru 85, 249
Yoshida Doctrine 85, 249
youth/young people
alternative lifestyles 197–8
and Asian relations 219
Chinese youth nationalism 219
divorce 212
employment of young people 181–3, 185–6, 189–91
‘frozen out’ of Japanese system 180, 194
/> hikikomori (recluses) 190–91
job seeking 180–82
move from unrealistic Japanese Dream 180–201
as non-consumers 174–5
and pensions 331n19
shushoku katsudo (screening/mass hiring of graduates) 180–81, 192
and the slowing economy 123, 174–5, 183
unemployment rates 165, 332n32
young Japanese hostages in Iraq 194–7
‘yutori generation’ 190
Yoyogi Park protest 273
yuai (fraternity) 244–5
yutori (‘anything goes’)
education 333n2
generation 190
zaibatsu (business conglomerates) 81, 92
Zambia 199
Zhan Qixiong 252–3
Zhou Enlai xxviii
Zushi 298
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