Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (426 page)

Muranaka Takaji, 295–96

Muraoka Ch
tar
, 217

Mussolini, Benito, 109–10, 465, 574

mutiny of February 1936, 296–305, 350–51, 679

constitution and, 302–3

executions resulting from, 301

February 20 election and, 301–2

Hirohito's account of, 303–4

Hirohito's response to, 299–301, 304–5

kokutai
and, 297–300, 302

Mut
Akira, 370, 609

Mut
Nobuyoshi, 257, 276

Mutsuhito,
see
Meiji, emperor of Japan

“My Impressions Upon Reading the Imperial Rescript on the Establishment of Peace” (Hirohito), 91–93

 

Nagai Takashi, 637

Nagako, Empress of Japan, 96–97, 108, 123, 135, 139, 143–45, 183, 201, 270–71, 273, 336, 384, 533, 653, 658, 661, 671, 674

Nagano Osami, 401–2, 406, 412, 418, 421, 424, 425, 426, 431, 454, 456, 458–59, 463, 464, 466, 468, 469, 471, 472, 476, 502, 593

Nagasaki, 687

atomic bombing of, 496, 635

Hirohito's visit to, 637

Nagata Shujir
, 165

Nagata Tetsuzan, 244, 296

Nagato,
144, 156, 426

Nagazumi Torahiko, 48

Nagura Bunichi, 111

Nakagawa Yoshinaga, 141

Nakajima Kesago, 332, 334

Nakajima Michio, 194, 199, 200

Nakamura Shintar
, 228–29

Nakamura Y
jir
, 96, 99, 102, 105

Nakaoka Konichi, 122

Nakasone Yasuhiro, 649, 681, 682–84

Nakatani Takeo, 289

Namba Daisuke, 140–42

Nambara Shigeru, 605

Nanking, “rape” of, 333–36, 340–41, 367

Nanking Incident, 214

Nanking International Safety Zone, 337

Nantenb
(Zen master), 42–43

Napoleon I, emperor of France, 60, 395

Napoleon jidaishi
(History of the age of Napoleon) (Mizukuri), 76

Narahashi Wataru, 574

Nara Takeji, 45, 46, 106, 119, 120–21, 128–29, 142, 154, 156, 157, 172, 207, 214–15, 224, 225, 231, 235–36, 239, 240, 241, 243, 258, 259–61, 284

Hirohito in diary of, 86–87

National Archives, U.S., 6

National Defense Security Law, 551

National Essence League, 540

National Foundation Day (Kigensetsu), 643

National Foundation Society (
Kokuhonsha
), 164

nationalism, 4, 40, 66, 105, 118, 120, 146, 224, 227, 535, 564

anti-masses campaign and, 201–2

anti-Semitism and, 280–81

Chinese, 149

of country people, 281–83

emperor worship campaign and, 202–3

enthronement rituals and, 224

hakk
ichiu
concept and, 200–201

imperial way and, 10–11

Nichiren sect and, 163–64, 167–69

motoky
religion and, 167–68