Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering (50 page)

letters by student conscripts,
155
,
293n29

leukemia,
183

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),
105
,
108
,
109
,
128–29
,
187
,
189
,
202n
,
203–5
,
207
,
215
,
216
,
218
,
223
,
226
,
278n3
,
293n31
,
301n39

Liberal Party,
202

Liberal View of History Study Group,
280n6

“liberation” of Asia,
265–66

Life
magazine,
40

London
Daily Express
,
145

Low, David,
36

Lucky Dragon
5
(boat),
156

MacArthur, Douglas,
41–42
,
44
,
62
,
145
,
201
,
246
,
251
,
259
,
260

machinery,
82
,
88–89

Machtpolitik
,
69

Maeda Tamon,
143

Malaya,
29
,
38
,
78
,
265

Manchukuo.
See
Manchuria, Japanese invasion and occupation of

“Manchukuo as Ideology,”
85

Manchuria,
273n2
,
274n9

Japanese invasion and occupation of,
15
,
67
,
72
,
84–86
,
110
,
113
,
123
,
282n11
,
283n12

occupation by Japan compared to U.S. occupation of Iraq,
261–69

Manchurian Incident,
67
,
69–72
,
265–67

Manga
(magazine),
80
,
230

Manifest Destiny,
266

Manila,
36
,
118
,
119

Mao Tse-tung,
76

Maruki Iri,
148
,
151–52
,
287n4
,
291n21

Maruki Toshi,
148
,
151–52
,
287n4
,
291n21

Maruyama Masao,
9
,
12–13
,
17
,
130
,
195

Marx, Karl,
11

Marxism,
2
,
11–13
,
16
,
93
,
114
,
130–31
,
189
,
209
,
254

mass media,
119
,
264
,
267

May Day,
252
,
253

May Fourth Movement,
70

McCarthyism,
56
,
179

Mead, Margaret,
42

Meiji period,
2–4
,
9–12
,
186
,
187

mercury poisoning,
211

Miike coal mine,
210
,
211

Miki Kiyoshi,
216
,
254

Miki Takeo,
215

military budget of Japan,
200–201
,
268
,
300n35

Minamata,
211

Ministry of Education,
106
,
285n20
,
289n12

Ministry of Finance,
201
,
288n12

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
267

Ministry of Health and Welfare,
58
,
290n16

Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI),
199
,
206

Mitsubishi,
88
,
89
,
201
,
268

Mitsubishi Zero (aircraft),
41
,
45
,
47
,
90

Mitsui,
88
,
268

Mitsui Mining Company,
210

Mitsukoshi (department-store chain),
95

Miyamoto Yuriko,
254

Miya Shigeo,
252

“modern boy,”
93–94
,
275n12

“modern girl,”
93–94
,
275n12

modernity,
83
,
97

Hiroshima/Nagasaki and,
138

and Japan at war,
65–104
,
261–69

modernization theory,
5–6
,
9–13
,
17
,
20–22
,
261

Momotar
ō
(“the Peach Boy”),
277n21

“monkeymen,”
38
,
39

Monroe Doctrine,
71–72
,
113
,
266

Mori Yoshir
ō
,
109
,
113
,
279n4
,
284n16

Morley, James,
9–12

Murayama Tomiichi,
278n3

Musashi
(battleship),
91

music,
94

Mussolini, Benito,
31

Nagai Takashi,
149–51
,
291–92nn22–23
,
293n29

Nagano Shigeto,
160
,
294n41

Nagasaki.
See
“Hiroshimas and Nagasakis”

Nagasaki no Kane
(Nagai Takashi),
150
,
291–92nn22–23

Nakajima,
268

Nakasone Yasuhiro,
105
,
129
,
223

Nakazawa Keiji,
157

Nanking,
76
.

See also
Rape of Nanking Nasser, Gamal,
1

National Air and Space Museum,
118
,
176
,
177
,
179

“national character,”
42

National Council for Peace and Against Nuclear Weapons,
293n31

National Endowment for the Arts,
184

National Endowment for the Humanities,
184

nationalism,
50
,
68
,
70
,
71
,
82
,
109
,
110
,
117
,
134
,
172
,
274n7
,
279n4
,
289n12

National Museum of American History,
179

“national polity,”
13
,
80
,
109
,
230
,
236

National Security Council, U.S.,
199

National Sh
ō
wa Memorial Museum (Sh
ō
wakan),
106
,
123

national socialism,
84
,
266
,
268

nation-building,
22

NATO,
120
,
216
,
223

Nazi Germany,
29–31
,
35
,
37
,
59
,
77
,
108
,
114
,
116
,
117
,
124
,
126
,
136
,
253

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
196

Netherlands,
36
,
78
,
113

Nevins, Allan,
30

“new bureaucrats,”
268

“new combines,”
84

New Deal,
259

New Left,
133
,
210
,
211
,
213

New Look,
217

“New Order,”
187
,
264

“New Structure,”
187

Newsweek
,
43–44
,
62

The New Yorker
,
36–37
,
154

The New York Times
,
36
,
145
,
256

The New York Times Magazine
,
45

“new zaibatsu,”
268

Nihon no Sens
ō
Sekinin Shiry
ō
Sent
ā
,
286n23

1955 System,
189–92
,
201–12
,
296n2
,
300n34

Nisei,
140
,
182
,
291n19

Nishida Kitaro,
274n7

Nishina Yoshio,
141

Nishio Kanji,
280n6

Nissan,
268

Nixon, Richard,
193
,
219

Nogi Maresuke,
255
,
306n23

Noguchi Hideyo,
255

Nolte, Ernst,
118

Nomura,
268

“Norakuro” (serialized comic),
94–96
,
99

Norman, E.H.,
1–27
,
161
,
186
,
256

North Korea,
262

nuclear weapons,
140–41
,
155–56
,
164
,
183
,
208
,
212
,
213
,
215–16

Nuremberg trials,
66
,
114–17
,
119
,
126
,
180

occupation of Japan,
114
,
288n12

censorship during,
138–39
,
145
,
147–50
,
167
,
286n2
,
289n14
,
290n19

and evolution of San Francisco System,
192

Iraq occupation vs.,
256–60

and racial stereotypes,
61–64

satire during,
228–32
(
See also
cartoon panels from
iroha karuta
game
)

and U.S. occupation forces,
120
,
169
,
258–59
,
304n16

Ō
e Kenzabur
ō
,
156–57
,
292n24

Ogawa Takeshi,
244
,
248–49

“oil shock,”
221

Oka Yoshitake,
209

Okinawa,
69
,
154
,
192
,
193
,
197
,
198
,
212
,
214
,
215
,
218
,
219
,
263
,
273n2
,
282–83n12

Okura,
268

Ono Saseo,
252

“On the Modesty of Clio” (E.H. Norman),
25

opinion polls,
109
,
110–11
,
134
,
213
,
279n5
,
299n23

Oriental Exclusion Laws,
46

Ō
ta Y
ō
ko,
292n25

Ō
uchi Tsutomu,
12

Ozaki Hotsumi,
254

“Pacific partnership,”
120
,
121
,
126
,
128

paintings, propaganda in,
74
,
90
,
95
,
97
,
102
,
103

Pal, Radhabinod,
115–17
,
281n9

Pan-Asianism,
47
,
58

Papon, Maurice,
118

Paris Peace Conference,
70

parodies, postwar,
230–32
.
See also
satire

Parsons, Talcott,
42–43

Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty,
213

“pathology of growth,”
9
,
11
,
21

patriotism,
73–74
,
109–11
,
112
,
129–30
,
172–73
,
264

Pax Americana,
121
,
129

“peace and democracy” in postwar period,
185–226

and Japan as “superstate” in 1980s,
220–26

from late 1950s until U.S.-China rapprochement,
212–20

and 1955 System,
201–12

and San Francisco System,
192–201

Peace Memorial Museum (Hiroshima),
106

peace movements,
123
,
155
,
196
,
208
,
213
,
218–19

Peace Preservation Law,
17
,
78
,
84

Peace Problems Symposium (Heiwa Mondai Danwakai),
155
,
195–96
,
208
,
213
,
215

Pearl Harbor attack,
32
,
41
,
46
,
66
,
76–77
,
89
,
91–92
,
94
,
117
,
118
,
136
,
257
,
259
,
262
,
295n43

Pearson, Lester,
1

Pentagon Papers,
20

People's Organization for Peace in Vietnam,
219

Philippines,
17
,
29
,
41
,
57
,
78
,
128
,
265

photography in prewar Japan,
86
,
95
,
275n15

photojournalism,
87

Pika-don
(book by Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi),
148
,
291n21

Pius XII, Pope,
118

Plato,
25
,
59

“political correctness,”
179

political parties,
93
.
See also
specific parties

popular culture in Japan

and atomic bombs,
136–60

and postwar humor,
227–55

and postwar political contention,
185–226

and war,
28–64
,
65–104

and war memory,
105–35
,
136–60