Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (429 page)

“Open Door Notes” (Hay), 147

Opium Wars, 149

“organ theory,” 40, 77, 80, 208, 287–95

Origin of Species
(Darwin), 60

Osaka World Exposition of 1970, 671

sako Naoharu, 44

Oshikawa Masayoshi, 104

shima Hiroshi, 352, 394

sumi Mineo, 247

Otabe Y
ji, 300

take Kanichi, 97, 104

ta Y
ko, 637

Ottoman Empire, 83

Outer Mongolia (Mongolian People's Republic), 307, 351, 394

“Outline for Carrying Out the National Policies of the Empire,” 414, 420

“Outline for Dealing with Changes in the International Situation,” 367–68

“Outline for Dealing With Disputes Along the Manchuria-Soviet Border,” 352

“Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement Between the United States and Japan,” 428

“Outline of the Empire's National Policies in View of the Changing Situation,” 395, 397–98

yama Iwao, 23, 37

 

Pacific Fleet, Japanese, 259

Packenham, Compton, 641

Pact of Paris,
see
Kellogg-Briand Pact Pak Yol, 160–61, 167, 183

Pal, Radhabinod, 595–96, 611, 613

Palau, 453

Panay,
USS, 340–42

Paris Peace Conference (1919), 68, 83, 92, 97, 101, 102, 133, 146, 176

see also
Versailles Peace Treaty

Patton, George S., 331

“Peace Negotiations with China and the Tripartite Pact,” 590

Peace Preservation Law of 1925, 158–59, 161, 551

revision of, 187, 206

Pearl Harbor attack, 1, 392, 445, 479, 549, 555, 574, 601, 608

Hirohito's final go-ahead for, 426

Hirohito's knowledge of, 421–22, 433

launching of, 436–37

responsibility issue and, 542, 546–47, 558, 567, 585, 590

Peerage Act of 1884, 36

Peers' School, 36–37, 57, 59, 60, 103, 177, 619

Peleliu, 453

Pescadores Islands, 8

Pétain, Philippe, 109

Peter I (The Great), Czar of Russia, 66

Petrel,
HMS, 436

Philippines, 9, 68, 264, 376, 400–402, 445, 447, 449, 451, 453, 470, 476, 481–83, 545, 593, 595, 648, 651

Philippine Sea, Battle of, 481

“Plan for the Fundamental Reorganization of Japan” (Kita), 101

Poland, 354, 355, 356, 476

Port Arthur, Second Battle of, 210

Post and Telecommunications Ministry, Japanese, 669

Potsdam Declaration, 496, 498–503, 506, 508, 522, 524, 526, 528, 541, 542, 544, 545, 553, 581

Article 12 of, 500

issued, 499–500

surrender debate and, 511–12, 514–16

Pravda,
394

Prince of Wales,
HMS, 445

prisoner-of-war (POW) issue, 207, 332–34, 359–60, 447–48

privy council, 59, 78, 94, 99, 159, 171, 179, 184, 207, 208, 209, 283, 380, 428

Progressive Reform Party, Japanese, 648

“Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” 168

Prussia, 76

Pu Yi, emperor of China, 247, 276

 

Rabe, John, 337

race, racism, 52, 66, 176–77, 195, 197, 274–76, 280, 288, 313–14

emperor theory and, 11, 69–71

and fear of occupiers, 538–39

Hirohito's beliefs on, 68–69, 148–49

Konoe's theory of, 266–69

nationalism and, 196, 268–69

Sino-Japanese relations and, 266–67

Sugiura's theory of, 68–69

in U.S., 264

war crimes trial and, 589–90

Ranke, Leopold von, 70

Reagan, Ronald, 681

“Record of the Emperor's Conversations” (
Seidan haich
roku
), 6, 589, 678

Recreation and Amusement Association (RAA), 538

“Reject the Anglo-American Standard of Pacifism” (
Ei-Bei hon'i no heiwashugi o haisu
) (Konoe), 268–69

Report Concerning the Thought and Actions of Returning Troops, 153

Reports of General MacArthur, The,
514

Repulse,
HMS, 445

Rescript of 1889, 39

“Rescript to Promote the National Destiny,” 560–61

“Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors,” 529–30

Rhee, Syngman, 663

Ridgway, Matthew B., 634, 643, 647

Rikken Seiy
kai (Friends of Constitutional Government),
see
Seiy
kai Party