Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering (52 page)

and San Francisco System,
189
,
192–201

Security Treaty with,
129
,
132
,
189
,
192–94
,
197
,
207
,
209–12
,
214
,
216–19

See also
Cold War

U.S. Air Force,
164

U.S. Congress,
72

U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
267

U.S. Justice Department,
267

U.S. Senate,
164
,
297n10

U.S. State Department,
198
,
267

U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey,
145
,
289n16

U.S. Supreme Court,
30

“uses of history,”
viii
,
1–6
,
7–27
,
256–60

“uses of tradition,”
253

University of Tokyo,
212

USSR.
See
Soviet Union

Vatican,
118

victims (victim consciousness, victimization),
53
,
106
,
121
,
129
,
130
,
164
,
197
,
218
,
282–83n12
,
289n12
,
295n43

and Hiroshima/Nagasaki,
144–48
,
157–59

and Japanese war crimes,
118–23

Victoria College (Toronto),
8

“victor's justice,”
114–18

Vietnam,
128
,
216

Vietnam War,
6
,
17–18
,
20
,
106
,
119
,
122
,
136
,
178
,
179
,
200
,
210–11

Vietnam War Memorial,
122
,
283n13

“Voice of the People” (cartoon sequence by Ogawa Takeshi),
244
,
245
,
246–49
,
249
,
250

war crimes, by Japanese,
105–35
.
See also
“comfort women”
; “
Rape of Nanking
”;
Unit 731
;
“war responsibility”

war-crimes trials.
See
Nuremberg trials
;
Tokyo war-crimes trials

war criminals, Japanese,
126

war dead

enumeration of,
69

mourning of,
73
,
73–75
,
74
,
96–98
,
123

See also
fatality estimates

war memorials,
106
,
122–23
,
156
,
159
,
283n13
,
294n40

war memory, Japanese,
105–35
,
279n5
,
280nn6–7
,
283n12

and acknowledgment of guilt/responsibility,
129–33

and atomic bombs,
136–60
,
161–75

and denial,
112–14

and moral equivalence,
114–18

and sanitizing of war crimes,
123–29

and victim consciousness,
118–23

war memory, U.S.,
6

and atomic bombs,
176–83

“war on terror,”
256

“war responsibility”

in critical Japanese scholarship,
286n23
,
300–1n36

debates,
129–33
,
276n17
,
283n14

and Emperor Hirohito,
288n9

and official apologies,
14
,
131
,
278–79n3

and opinion polls,
134
,
279n5

and changing U.S. attitudes regarding Japan,
285n18

War Responsibility Data Center,
286n23

Waseda University,
211–12

The Washington Post
,
37

Watanabe Kazuo,
107
,
133
,
134

The Way of the Subject
,
80

weapons production, in postwar Japan,
288–89n12

Weizsacker, Richard von,
278n3

Wells, Warner,
162

West Germany,
120
,
278n3

“What's Fashionable in the Capital Now,”
228–30
,
232
,
247

“White Peril,”
72
,
108
,
266

woodblock prints,
86
,
87
,
87–88

World War II, Asian perspective on origins of,
66–76

Wyman, David,
30

Yamamoto Isoroku,
46

Yamato
(battleship),
91

Yamato race (Yamato spirit),
49–51
,
56
,
60
,
64
,
72
,
80
,
230

Yasuda,
88
,
268

Yasukuni Shrine (Yasukuni jinja),
74
,
74–75
,
97
,
105
,
129
,
273n3
,
284n15

“Yellow Peril,”
34
,
46–47
,
51
,
72

Yomiuri
(newspaper),
110
,
279n5

Yoshida Shigeru,
192–94
,
197–99
,
202
,
203
,
207–8
,
214
,
217

Yoshida Yutaka,
284n15

Yoshikawa Eiji,
254

Yoshimi Yoshiaki,
284n14

zaibatsu
,
84
,
88
,
114
,
124
,
254
,
268

zaikai
,
204