Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (427 page)

post-occupation, 657–59

racism and, 196, 268–69

renewal of, 636, 638

sacred portrait and, 201

xenophobia and, 8–9

Nationalist Revolutionary Army, Chinese, 214

National Learning school, 63

national polity,
see kokutai

National Security Council:

document 13/2 of, 635

document 48/2 of, 636

document 68 of, 636

National Treasury, Japanese, 538, 573–74

National War Dead Memorial Service, 658

Navy, Imperial, 90, 146, 151, 152, 166, 205, 207, 230, 247–48, 305–6, 325, 330, 364, 369, 378, 396, 400, 402, 408, 411, 430, 444, 445, 450, 470, 530

abolition of headquarters of, 553

army's foreign policy rivalry with, 309–12

battle losses of, 460–61

decisive battle doctrine of, 205, 458

factional conflict in, 224–25

fascist mood in, 273

London Naval Treaty opposed by, 225–26

Midway defeat and, 449–50

national defense debate in, 205–6

Panay
incident and, 340

and right of supreme command, 155–56

Shanghai Incident and, 250, 323

tonnage reduction debate in, 208–9

Navy General Staff, Japanese, 33, 56, 150–51, 155, 179, 225, 226, 230, 311, 319, 378, 390, 395, 426, 437, 450, 463, 476, 481

London Naval Treaty opposed by, 210–11

tonnage reduction debate and, 208–9

Navy Ministry, Japanese, 209, 286, 297, 323, 346, 389, 395, 397, 429, 539

Nazi Party, German, 202, 264

Netherlands, 83, 106, 108, 109, 356, 376, 406–7, 409, 414, 425, 559, 616, 671

Netherlands East Indies, 146, 368, 371, 375, 400, 403, 410, 425, 427, 434, 445, 452, 453, 466, 470

Neutrality Acts, U.S., 326

New Britain, 445, 453, 471

“New Constitution of Japan,” 574

New Deal, 264, 585

New Georgia, 461–62, 463

New Guinea, 446–47, 449, 454–55, 459, 461–62, 467, 470, 471

Newsweek,
641

Hirohito interviewed by, 674–75

New York Herald Tribune,
374

New York Times,
337, 341, 546, 572

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

New Zealand, 376, 543

Nezu Masashi, 65, 142, 677

NHK, 556, 557

Nichiren sect, 11, 163–64

Japanese nationalism and, 168–69

Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, 116

Nicobar Islands, 446, 470

Nicolson, Harold, 115

Nihonjin
(The Japanese), 62

Nihon Shoki,
67, 72

Nimitz, Chester, 444, 455

Nine-Power Treaty, 147, 150, 246, 269, 343, 607

Nineteenth Route Army, Chinese, 250

Ninigi-no-mikoto, 63

Ninomiya Harushige, 240

Nitobe Inaz
, 42

Nixon, Richard M., 671

Nobel Prize, 638

Nobuhito,
see
Takamatsu, Prince Nogi, General, 36–37, 41–44, 210

Hirohito influenced by, 43

ritual suicide of, 42–43

Nomonhan incident, 351

Nomura Kichisabur
, 355, 403–4, 421, 428–29, 432

Nomura Minoru, 451

Nonaka Shir
, 284

Nori, Princess, 686

North China Area Army, Japanese, 352, 362, 365, 459

Northeast Administrative Committee, 249

Northern Expedition, 185

Norway, 356

No-War Treaty,
see
Kellogg-Briand Pact

“Now It Can Be Told” (Shins
wa k
da) (radio program), 556–57

Nuremberg trials, 596, 600, 607, 608, 611, 615

 

Obata Toshishir
, 244

daira Komatsuchi, 492

Office of Audits of Imperial Accounts, 173

Office of Production Management, 401

Office of Shinto Deities, 384

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 582

gane Masujir
, 621

Ogasawara Islands, 649, 651

Ogasawara Naganari, 42–43, 44, 45, 47–48, 63, 77, 85–86, 90, 96, 208–9

Hirohito evaluated by, 85–86

T
g
's relationship with, 101