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Aaroe, Gene
79
–80

Abe, Shinzo
125
,
234
,
236
–7,
242
,
243
–4,
253

on 2012 re-election: and Abenomics
305
–11,
315
–17; and China
311
–14,
316
; and constitutional change
313
–14; and Russia
341
n16

Beautiful Country
237

Abegglen, James
90
–91,
95
,
167
–8,
179

Abenomics
305
–11,
315
–17

Afghanistan
195
,
241

ageing
160
–64,
167

Ainu people
49
–50

Akihabara Electric Town
210

Akihito, Emperor
17

Almighty Medicine
108

Always: Sunset on Third Street
93
–4

Amataresu, sun goddess
46
–7

Amritsar massacre
222

anatomy
62

ancestor veneration
33

animism
33
,
46
–7,
52

Aomori
80

Apple
170
,
173

apprenticeships
xxviii
–xxix,
290

Arai, Hiroko
232
–3

Asahara, Shoko
108

Asahi
78
,
80

Asia

Hatoyama and relations with
244
–6,
251
–4

Japanese relations and the legacy of history
219
–35

and the withdrawal of Japan
55
–70,
81
–2,
238
,
245
,
254

Asian Development Bank
307

asset prices
102
,
118
,
126
,
181

Aum Association of Mountain Wizards
108

Aum Shinrikyo
104
,
108
–9

Aum Supreme Truth
108

Aung San
70

auto industry
see
car industry

Badd Girls
193

Bando Mitsugoro VIII
136

Bank of Japan
102
,
114
,
130
,
144
,
306
,
307
–8

banking system
102
,
103
,
115
,
118
,
121
,
124
,
129
–30,
135

interest rates
see
interest rates

and Takenaka
141
–4

Basho, Matsuo
45
–6

Bataan Death March
228
–9

Batavia
60

Bell Laboratories
89

Benedict, Ruth:
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
35
–6,
46
,
50

Bernanke, Ben
130

Bhutan
178

birth rates
161
–2

Blacker, Carmen
64

bond market
124
–5

Boston Consulting Group
91

Brandt, Willy
220
–21

Brazil
165
,
167
,
173
,
205

Britain

Amritsar massacre
222

and Burma
70

economy
119
,
120
,
145
; post-war
117
; recession
128

first Opium War
57
,
66

foreign business acquisitions
311

and Japan
60
; Anglo-Japanese alliance (1902)
68
; and geography
233
–4

pre-emptive austerity
128

shipbuilding
86

women workers
164

brothels
230
,
243

Buddhism
33
,
58
,
294

Bulova
89

bunraku
puppetry
xxviii

burakumin
caste
49

bureaucracy/bureaucrats
58
,
84
,
97
,
125
,
223
,
286

bureaucratic culture
260

and Hashimoto
199

and Hatoyama
250
,
281

and Koizumi
140
,
147
,
149
–50

loss of public trust
279
,
285
,
287

and MacArthur
33
,
80

Ministry of Finance bureaucrats
142
,
250
,
328
n6

MITI bureaucrats
86
,
88

and the ‘nuclear village’
264
–9,
272
,
274
,
277
–8

sarin attack on bureaucrats
183

university training of bureaucrats
108

and women workers
164

Burma
70
,
73

Buruma, Ian
52
,
59
,
224
,
226

The Course of Our Country
230

business conglomerates (
zaibatsu
)
81
,
92

business practice
see
company culture and business practice

caesium, radioactive
28
,
275

calendar, western
62

calisthenics
xxix
,
xxxi

Cameron, David
222

Campbell, Kurt
246

cancer
276

Canon
172

Capital Hotel, Rikuzentakata
4
,
5
,
7
,
12
,
25
,
26
,
295
–6

capital market deregulation
102

capitalism
xxix
–xxx

stakeholder–shareholder balance
xxix
–xxx

stakeholder model
120

car industry
87
–8,
96
,
145
,
270

Japanese cars built outside Japan
166

carbon emissions
270
,
271

cash hoarding
114
–15

Chang’an
58

Chengdu
312

Chernobyl nuclear disaster
260
,
265
,
275
–6

Chiba, Akira
45
,
51

child poverty
212

childcare
129
,
164
,
205
,
206

Chile earthquake (1960)
24
,
296

China/the Chinese

ageing
162

Communist Party
133
,
219

Dutch massacre of Chinese in Batavia
60

economy
117
,
174
,
220

foreign business acquisitions
311

and Japan
xxxiv
–xxxv,
32
,
33
,
52
,
57
–9,
60
,
303
; and Abe
311
–14,
316
; anti-Japanese demonstrations (2005)
235
; anti-Japanese demonstrations (2012)
312
; break between the two cultures
58
–9,
61
–6; and China’s 1964 nuclear test
264
; Chinese influence on Japanese culture
57
–8; Chinese workers in Japan
166
; Chinese view of Japan as a peripheral nonentity
58
; and Deng Xiaoping
220
; economy comparison
117
,
174
,
220
; and Hatoyama and his government
244
–6,
251
–4; history’s legacy of continuing troubled relations
219
–35; invasion of China (1937)
73
,
228
,
232
; invasions of Manchuria
see
Manchuria: and Japan; Japanese debt recovery and demand from China
143
; Japanese factories/call centres in China
166
,
169
; under Koizumi
221
,
234
–5; and Manchuria
see
Manchuria: and Japan; and the manufacturing industry
xxi
,
145
,
169
; Nanjing massacre
78
,
228
–9; and the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands
251
–3,
311
–13,
316
; trade
143
,
145
,
235
,
253
; and the US
238
–9,
313
,
316
; war of 1895
67
,
68
; World War II
69

Manchurian invasion of China
63

military ascendancy
220

Ming Dynasty
63

nuclear test (1964)
264

Opium War, first
57
,
66

science, Chinese vs western
62
–3

seafaring vessel ban
31

Tang Dynasty
58

Tiananmen Square
219

unequal port treaties
57
,
64

World War II
69

and the WTO
156

youth nationalism
219

Choshu
236
,
247

Christianity
31
,
45
,
55
,
59
–60,
61

Catholicism
59

missionaries
59

civil society
xxxiii
,
71
,
269
,
284
–9

class
49
,
118
,
155

Class-A war criminals
221
,
225
–6

Clinton, Bill
249

Clyde
86

Cold War
81
,
84
,
104
,
158
,
239
,
245
,
246

colonialism
56
,
57

‘comfort women’
230
,
243

communism
81
,
84
,
197
,
236
,
237

Communist Party of China
133
,
219

Marxism
72
,
230
,
237
–8

company culture and business practice
90
–93,
118
,
120
–21,
148

convoy system
92

corporate restructuring
xxxiii
,
121
,
144
,
179
,
182
,
207

foreign acquisitions
173
–4,
311

globalization
317

graduate recruitment
180
–81,
182

kaizen
(continuous improvement)
90

keiretsu
relationships
92
,
101

lifelong employment
90
,
93
,
148
,
186

and the post-industrial era
172
–3

and recovery from debt
143
–4

and retirement age
163
,
164

and Takenaka’s view of no company ‘too big to fail’
143

and women returners
206

complacency
xxi
,
24
,
95
,
304

computers
94

Confucianism
33
,
58
,
67

cooperatives
198

Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
140

crime

Class-A war criminals
221
,
225
–6

rates
xx
,
xxv
,
xxix
,
116
,
122
,
259

Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
81
,
225

and the US–Japan Status of Forces Agreement
248
–9

violent
104
,
122
,
204
,
210
,
211
see also
terrorism; legislation on domestic violence
211
–12; rape
see
rape; US
96

Curtis, Gerald
154
,
158
,
268
,
281

Dalai Lama
33

Danjuro Ichikawa IX
68

de Gaulle, Charles
93

debt, national

Japan
xxvii
,
xxxiii
,
115
–16,
123
–7,
146
–7,
271
,
283
,
306

US
xxi
,
126
–8

Defence Agency
139
,
243

Defence Ministry
243

deflation
114
–15,
119
,
123
,
127
,
130
,
144
,
163
,
179
,
303
,
306
–7,
308
–9

Deftech (rap band)
295

Dejima
32

Deming, William
91
–2

democracy
xxviii
,
78
,
80
,
133
,
152
,
221
–2,
269
,
281
,
287

‘Taisho democracy’
71
–2

Democratic Party of Japan
149
,
244
–7,
251
,
279
–83

post-tsunami public dissatisfaction with
279
–83

demographics
160
–65,
168

Deng Xiaoping
220

deregulation
101
,
129
,
145
,
147
–8,
153