Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (423 page)

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s
,
38–39

Sugiura's lecture on, 64

Koyama Itoko, 270, 666

Krisher, Bernard, 674

Kuga Noboru, 251

Kuhara Fusanosuke, 212, 213, 218

Kuj
Michizane, 130

Kuj
Sadako,
see
Teimei K
g
, Dowager Empress

Kumazawa Hiromichi, 566

Kuni Kuniyoshi, 96–97, 98

Kuni Nagako,
see
Nagako, Empress of Japan

Kuomintang,
see
China, Nationalist Kuribayashi, General, 484

Kurile Islands, 470, 479, 649, 657

Kurusu Sabur
, 425, 428

Kwajalein, 453

Kwantung Army, Japanese, 169, 207, 224, 229–32, 237, 242–43, 257, 285, 286, 287, 307, 311, 318, 321, 325, 329, 351, 364, 398, 470, 556, 590

Chang assassination and, 215–16

Hopei Province occupied by, 271–72

Manchurian Incident as staged by, 235–36, 614

Ky
d
Ts
shinsha News Agency, 555, 677

Kyoto Palace, 195

Kyoto University protest incident, 644–45

Kyushu, 501, 524

 

labor movement, 163, 165, 206

Labour Party, British, 111

Lady Bird,
HMS, 340

Lady Michiko
(
Michikosama
) (Koyama), 666

League of Nations, 12, 14, 46, 135, 176, 227, 245, 275, 598

Covenant of, 146, 148, 150, 224, 256, 571, 607

Hirohito's affirmation of, 91–92

Japan's withdrawal from, 256, 261–63, 265, 268, 269, 279

Lytton Commission of, 257, 260

Manchuria conflict and, 236, 241–42, 258, 259–63

League to Destroy the Emperor-Organ Theory, 289

Lend-Lease, 381

Lenin, V. I., 150

Leyte, Battle of, 481–82, 493

liaison conferences, 387, 389, 395, 397, 399, 401–2, 403, 407, 409, 420–21, 446, 468

Liaotung Peninsula, China, 8, 9, 256

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japanese, 656, 660, 663, 667, 668–69, 670, 671, 672, 681, 685, 686

Liberal Party, Japanese, 648

Lincoln, Abraham, 60

Lingayen Gulf, Battles of, 482

Lloyd George, David, 116

Logan, William, 602, 604

London Charter, 608

London Naval Treaty, 206, 210, 248, 252, 269, 590

Japan's opposition to, 225–26, 245

Lopez, Pedro, 595

Los Angeles Times,
342

Luxembourg, 356

Lytton Commission, 257

report of, 260

 

MacArthur, Douglas, 3, 6, 400–401, 445, 447, 455, 471, 481, 518, 541, 542, 553, 562, 563, 576, 572–73, 574, 581, 582, 584, 585, 586, 587, 589, 596, 605, 612, 615, 616, 618, 620, 621, 624, 628, 647, 688

abdication issue and, 609–10

background and personality of, 547–48

Civil Liberties directive of, 551

Eisenhower telegram of, 567–68

Hirohito compared with, 547–48

Hirohito's circumvention of, 639–40, 641

Hirohito's meetings with, 543–44, 547–50, 590, 622–23, 625, 639, 640, 645

Hirohito's relationship with, 549, 645

Hirohito used by, 2