Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering (48 page)

Black Rain
(film),
293n33

Black Rain
(novel by Masuji Ibuse),
149
,
157
,
163
,
173
,
293n33

“blood nationalism,”
50

“Bloody May Day,”
132

Bohr, Niels,
141

Bolshevik Revolution,
71

British Commonwealth,
66

Burchett, Wilfred,
145

bureaucracy,
84
,
257
,
260

Burma,
29
,
78
,
128
,
265

Burma-Thailand Railway,
118

Bush, George W., and administration (2001–2009),
256
,
257
,
263

Cadogan, Alexander,
36

cannibalism,
119

capitalism,
13
,
16
,
24
,
190
,
191
,
265–66
,
268

Capra, Frank,
51
,
98
,
276n19

Cardinal Principles of the National Polity
,
80

Carr, E.H.,
vii

cartoon panels from
iroha karuta
game,
233–55

antimilitarism in,
237
,
244
,
244
,
246

black market depicted in,
247–48

and censorship,
237
,
243
,
252
,
305n16v

chaos of everyday postwar life in,
248–52

and connection with the past,
253–55

in 1946 New Year issue of
Ky
ō
ryoku shimbun
,
237
,
238–44
,
243
,
247
,
301n3
,
303n12
,
304n10

origins and development of game,
233–35
,
303n7

as vehicle for satire and social commentary,
235–37

in “Voice of the People,”
244
,
245
,
246–49
,
249
,
250

cartoons, animated,
277n21

cartoons, anti-Anglo-American,
54–55
,
56
,
57
,
80

cartoons, during first year of occupation,
141–42

censorship,
267
,
276n21
,
285n16
,
286n2
m,
289n12
,
304n14
,
305n16

and
Enola Gay
exhibit (Smithsonian Institution),
178–80

of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings,
138–39
,
145
,
147–50
,
289n14
,
290n19

and Ienaga textbook case,
105
,
285–86n20

and Japanese propaganda,
75
,
78

of medical studies on effects of atomic bombs,
167
,
291n19

and postwar satire,
237
,
243
,
252

unanticipated consequence of,
153–54

in U.S. occupation,
137
,
138–39
,
147
,
148–49
,
153
,
154–55
,
182
,
237
,
243
,
252
,
286–87n2
,
290–91n19

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
186

Chang, Iris, and
The Rape of Nanking
,
281n10

Chang Tso-lin,
9

Charter Oath,
253

cherry blossoms,
75
,
273n3

Chiang Kai-shek,
76

children's culture,
76
,
86
,
94
,
99
,
100
,
231–33
,
275n13
,
277n21

“China Incident.”
See
China War

China, People's Republic of,
67–68
,
113
,
121
,
126
,
132
,
159–60
,
170
,
263
,
285n18

and Japanese expansionism,
73
,
265

rise of nationalism in,
68
,
70
,
71

See also
Manchuria, Japanese invasion and occupation of
;
Nanking

China, People's Republic of,
6
,
127–28
,
132
,
159
,
187
,
193
,
213
,
219
,
285n18

China Incident,
67
,
69–72

China War,
133

China War, from 1937 with Japan,
67–78
,
136
,
265

Chinese revolution,
19

Chocolate and Soldiers
(film),
100

Churchill, Winston,
52
,
56
,
56

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),
186

citizens' movements.
See
grassroots movements

Civil War, U.S.,
122

Clean Government Party,
209

Cold War,
126–28
,
131
,
132
,
210
,
293n29

and anti-Communism,
19
,
61

and “democratization” of Japan,
62

and Japanese war crimes,
126

Japan's role in,
120–21
,
202
,
207
,
259
,
260

and modernization theory,
5–6

and San Francisco System,
189
,
193–99

collectivism,
226

colonialism,
115
,
278n3

“comfort women” (
ianfu
),
105
,
106
,
114
,
123–24
,
131
,
160
,
284n14

comics, serialized,
94–95
.
See also
cartoon panels from
iroha karuta
game

Communism,
67
,
71
,
78
,
93
,
108
,
113
,
117
,
120
,
195–96
,
213
,
266

Communists, Japanese,
258
.
See also
Japan Communist Party

comparative studies,
16–22

Confucianism,
59
,
60
,
82
,
234

conservative politics

and Cold War,
120–22

and “good war,”
179

and historical revisionism,
114
,
181
,
280–81nn6–9

and mourning of war dead,
96–97

and neo-nationalism,
134

and Pearl Harbor,
160

and San Francisco System,
194
,
197

and sanitizing of the past,
105
,
108–12
,
126–29

and Soviet Union,
117

and U.S.-Japanese relations,
186–87
,
213–18
,
222
,
224
,
225

See also
1955 System

Constitution Investigation Committee,
207
,
216
,
299–300n29

constitution, Japanese,
192
,
194
,
209
,
288n12
,
299
–
300n29

and restraints on remilitarization,
132
,
142
,
192
,
193–94
,
207–8
,
288n12

consumerism,
217

“Control Faction,”
267

corruption,
170–71

counterrevolution,
16
,
19

crony capitalism,
268

Crowley, James,
14

Cultural Revolution,
213
,
219

Datsun,
206

dehumanization of the enemy,
34–37
,
38–40

demilitarization,
259
,
260

Democratic Party of Japan,
128
,
202–3

Democratic Socialist Party,
209
,
293n3

democratization,
223
,
257
,
259–60
,
262–63

demonization of the enemy,
52–53
,
56
,
56–58
,
57

denial of aggression,
112–14

DeWitt, John,
51

“diary of defeat” (Watanabe Kazuo),
107

Diet (Japanese parliament),
108
,
188
,
202
,
205
,
216
,
217
,
267
.
See also
House of Representatives (Japan)

Diplomatic History
(journal),
138

Dodge, Joseph,
199

“dollar shock,”
219–20

D
ō
mei news agency,
139

don
,
165

Dore, Ronald,
12

Dulles, John Foster,
127
,
199
,
214

Dutch East Indies,
29
,
39
,
265
.
See also
Indonesia

“economic nationalism,”
121

economic planning,
254–55

Economic Planning Agency,
205–6

Economic Reconstruction Council,
204

Economic White Paper
,
205

Eichelberger, Robert,
36

eirei
,
74
,
96
,
123

emperor-worship,
109
,
284n16
,
305n20

Enola Gay
exhibit (Smithsonian Institution),
118
,
176–84

ero-guro-nansensu
,
275n12

Ezaki K
ō
hei,
103

fabrics, Japanese propaganda on,
73
,
76
,
83
,
85
,
89
,
91
,
92
,
99
,
102–4

factionalism,
84
,
267
,
293n31

fatality estimates,
68
,
69
,
117
,
119
,
140
,
145–46
,
159
,
182
,
273n2
,
281n8
,
282–3nn11–12
,
289–90n16
,
294n38

The Fate of the Earth
(Jonathan Schell),
163

Federation of Economic Organizations,
204

Feudal Background of Japanese Politics
(E.H. Norman),
7
,
24

feudalism,
93
,
114

“Fifteen-Year War,”
67
,
110
,
116
,
305n22

film,
48
,
95
,
98–102
,
100

“Food May Day,”
253–54

Formosa,
15
,
58
,
70
.
See also
Taiwan

France,
71
,
78

French Indochina.
See
Indochina frugality,
250–51

Fuji, Mount,
56

Fujioka Nobukatsu,
111
,
280n6

Fujiyama Aiichi,
197

Furukawa,
268

Fussell, Paul,
137

futurism,
80–81

Genbaku Shishu
(T
ō
ge Sankichi),
151

General Agreement on Tariffs and

Trade (GATT),
205

General Council of Trade Unions

(Sohyo),
203

Geny
ō
sha,
2
,
7

Germany,
107
,
108
,
124
,
126–28
,
256
,
275n12
,
278n3
.
See also
Nazi Germany

Godzilla,
156
,
206

“Good War” narrative,
137
,
181
,
184

Gorer, Geoffrey,
42

graphic arts

depiction of Japanese in U.S.,
33
,
34
,
38
,
39
,
45

depiction of Westerners in,
52
,
54–55
,
56
,
57
,
79

Hiroshima and Nagasaki in,
148
,
151–52

See also
cartoon panels from
iroha karuta
game

grassroots movements,
2
,
191
,
208
,
211–12
,
236
,
246
,
259

Great Britain,
66
,
71
,
78
,
113

Great Depression,
67
,
71
,
73
,
113
,
266

“Great East Asia War” (
Dai T
ō
a Sens
ō
),
160

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere,
14
,
31
,
47
,
81
,
112
,
228

gross national product (GNP),
205
,
215
,
218
,
223
,
300n35

Guadalcanal Diary
(film),
37