Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (413 page)

European tour of 1921, 84, 95, 96, 99–100, 103–22, 173, 465

British segment of, 106–7, 108, 110–11, 115–19

and disavowal of emperor's divinity, 119

French segment of, 108–9

Hara and, 99–100, 103, 104, 106, 110, 113, 114

Hirohito's behavior in, 114–15

Hirohito's grooming for, 105–6, 113

Hirohito's image and, 106–7, 112–13

Italian segment of, 109–10

itinerary of, 106, 108

in Japanese press, 110–12, 114

necessity for, 105

opposition to, 103–4, 114

outbound passage of, 107–8

as public relations campaign, 110

return voyage in, 110

success of, 113–14, 117

European tour of 1971, 672

evolution, theory of, 60, 62

“Explanatory Materials for the Emperor Concerning the War Situation,” 390

 

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, 254–55, 499, 588

Japan's national image and, 280

Fellers, Bonner F., 542, 567, 582–86, 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, 541–42, 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, 106–8

Freemasonry, 226

French Indochina, 110, 362, 368, 371, 375–79, 394–95, 397, 398, 400, 403, 404, 411, 425, 428, 602

Fuad, Khedive, 107

Fujii Shigeru, 395

Fujita Hisanori, 542

Fujiyama Raita, 323

Fukazawa Shichir
, 661–62, 663, 665–66, 667

Fukiage Gardens, 60

Fukuda Hikosuke, 140, 214–15

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), 663–65

Fushimi Hiroyasu, Prince, 45, 50, 209, 248, 299, 376, 402

Futara Yoshinori, 121

 

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, 555–56, 559, 615, 619

draft constitution and, 568, 571, 576

era-name system and, 679–80

Hirohito's New Year's rescript and, 561–62

reforms by, 551–52

and reshaping of history, 556–57, 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, 115–19, 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, 307–8, 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, 352–53, 356, 357, 380–84

Soviet nonaggression pact with, 354, 393, 396

Soviet Union invaded by, 394–95, 410

surrender of, 497–98, 521

war successes of, 355–57, 367–68, 369, 453–54

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, 187–88

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, 106–7, 108, 110–11, 115–19

Hirohito's 1971

visit to, 672

Japan's 1902 alliance with, 147, 148, 150–51, 382

London Naval Treaty and, 210

in prelude to World War II, 388, 395–98, 400, 402, 403, 405, 406–7, 409, 414, 427

Shanghai Incident and, 251

U.S. destroyers-for-bases deal with, 381

Washington treaties and, 176–77

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, 519–20

Hirohito as seen by, 498–99

Guadalcanal, 446–47, 454, 463, 464

Battle of, 455–62

Guam, 9, 436, 445, 453, 456, 475

Gunrei,
34

 

hakk
ichiu
(benevolent rule), 200, 372

Hakusukinoe, battle of, 623

Hamaguchi Y
k
, 208, 209, 219, 225, 228, 304