Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (437 page)

Ueda Kenkichi, 277, 351

Uesugi Kenshin, 65

Uesugi Shinkichi, 77, 78–79, 291–92, 294, 295

Ugaki Kazushige, 45–46, 77, 90, 152, 153, 154, 155–56, 157, 158, 225, 241, 248

Ugaki Matome, 458–59

Umezu Yoshijir
, 354, 481–82, 484, 485, 511, 514–15, 519, 521, 593

unconditional surrender policy, 496–98, 500

United Nations, 625

United Press, 546

United States:

in destroyers-for-bases deal, 381

economic sanctions against Japan by, 395–96, 400–401, 403, 405, 425

Hirohito as perceived by, 341–42

Hirohito's European tour and, 106

Hirohito's 1975

visit to, 674, 676

isolationism in, 343

Japanese codes broken by, 428

Japan's relations with, 246, 249–50, 255–56, 265, 388, 395–403, 405, 427

London Naval Treaty and, 210

McCarthyism in, 656

Manchurian Incident and Japan's relations with, 249–50, 255–56

named as main enemy of Japan, 151

Nanking atrocities and, 340–41

Neutrality Acts of, 326

oil embargo against Japan by, 399, 401, 403–7, 408, 439

and onset of World War II, 355

Panay
incident and, 340–42

and prelude to World War II, 395–403, 405–17, 424–25, 427–28

secret Hirohito records of, 6

stock market crash of 1929 in, 219

Versailles Treaty rejected by, 134

war mood in, 408

Washington treaties signed by, 147–48, 176–77, 226

at Yalta conference, 490

United States-Japan Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, 353

Unit 731, Japanese, 364, 617

Usami Okiie, 293

Ushijima Mitsuru, 484–85

U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan, 544

U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS), 583–84

 

Vasilievsky, A. M., 524

Vatican, 106, 109, 421

Versailles Peace Treaty, 263, 264, 269, 361

see also
Paris Peace Conference Vichy France, 379, 400

Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy, 109, 465

Viet Minh, 616

Vietnam, Democratic Republic of (North Vietnam), 671

Vietnam, Republic of (South Vietnam), 651

Vietnam War, 671

“Views on National Policy Centering on China” (Oikawa), 311–12

Vining, Elizabeth, 650

 

Wada Shinken, 527–28

waka
poetry, 6, 42, 75, 442, 632

Wakatsuki Reijir
, 159–61, 171, 198, 228, 230, 236–37, 244, 245, 373, 430, 487, 488, 599

fall of, 183–84

Wake,
U.S.S., 436

Wake Island, 9, 436, 445, 453

Wales, Prince of (later Duke of Windsor), 108, 112

Wang Ching-wei, 347–48, 350, 404, 429, 473–74

war crimes and atrocities, 524, 528, 559

in anti-militarism campaign, 555–56

biological weapons, 351, 362–64, 367

chemical weapons, 349, 361–62, 367, 594, 616–17

Hirohito's knowledge of, 336–38, 339

in media, 335–36, 337

in Nanking, 333–36, 340–41, 594, 608

and prisoners of war, 332–34

in Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45, 332–36, 340–41, 359–61, 616–17

see also
Tokyo war crimes trial

War Memorial Day, 668

War of Greater East Asia (
Dai T
'A sens
),
see
World War II, Asia-Pacific Theater of

War Termination Liaison Committee, 541–42, 584

Wartime Emergency Measures Law, 495

Washington Conference (1921–22), 133, 149, 221, 226, 255, 263, 269

Japanese defense plan after, 150–51

Konoe's opposition to, 176–77

treaties arising from, 128, 147

Washington Naval Arms Reduction Treaty, 151, 205, 226

Watanabe Ikujir
, 165

Watanabe J
tar
, 297

Watanabe Osamu, 574

way of the warrior (
bushid
), 34, 36, 43, 51–52, 59, 185

Webb, William, 596, 600, 604, 607, 609, 610–12

Whitney, Courtney, 568, 647

Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 66–67, 83

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 109

Wiswell, Ella, 281–83

Women of Suye Mura, The
(Smith and Wiswell), 282

World War I, 108, 118, 224, 226, 496, 512, 608

Asian Monroeism in, 267

emperor's role in, 129, 345

Germany and, 349, 496, 512, 534

Japan's idealized traditions in, 51–52, 277

Japan's military criticized in, 52–53, 277

Japan's social and political tensions in, 93, 128

seeds of World War II in, 267, 278

World War II, 4, 116, 342, 493, 688

cost of, in lives, 4

German invasion of Soviet Union in, 394–95

German successes in, 355–57, 367–68, 369, 453–54

Germany-first strategy in, 385

Germany's defeat in, 487, 490, 521

Hirohito's role in, 2–5

Italy's surrender in, 465

and Japanese expansion of war in China, 379–80

Japan's declaration of war against U.S. in, 436–37

Japan's total war economy in, 314–15

Normandy landings in, 476

North Africa campaign in, 453–54, 565

onset of, 350, 355

World War II, Asia-Pacific theater of:

atomic bomb in,
see
atomic bomb balloon bomb weapon program in, 477

Byrnes note and, 504, 518–19, 526, 541

decisive battle doctrine in, 466, 472, 481