Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (51 page)

radiation
15
,
21
,
27
–8,
258
–60,
262
–3,
266
; leaks/dumping of radioactive water into the sea
263
; levels in schools
277
; popular fears of
274
,
275
–8; public mistrust of government concerning
276
–8,
279
; radioactive caesium
28
,
275

rating on International Atomic Energy Agency scale
260

seawater injection
14
–15,
262
,
267

Senoue photographing in exclusion zone
289

and Tepco
see
Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company)

and Tokyo
17
–18,
263

venting operation
262

Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant
18

Fukuzawa, Yukichi
xxx
,
63
–6,
67
,
68
,
71
,
243

Fuller, John Frederick Charles
70

Fumonji temple
27
,
297
–8

Funabashi, Yoichi
52
–3,
54
,
173
,
196
–7,
253
,
264
,
316

Fundamental Law of Education
243

Furuichi, Noritoshi
37
,
184
–7,
192
–3

Happy Youth in a Desperate Country
185

Fuse, Hiroshi
28

Futenma Air Base
249
,
250
–51

G20 (Group of Twenty)
308

‘Galapagos syndrome’
173

Galbraith, Kenneth:
The Affluent Society
83

Gale, Robert
276

gang rape
211

gas
271
,
272

methane
305

Gender Inequality Index, UN
205
,
332
nn3–4

General Electric
272

General Motors
xx
,
87
,
145

Germany
35
,
52
,
93
,
145
,
169
,
177
,
272
,
273
,
313

and the Fukushima crisis
260

post-war charter amendments
313

post-war dealing with history
219
,
220
–21,
222
,
223
,
224

renewable energy
272

Gini coefficient
155
,
329
n46

Give2Asia
286

Gordon, Beate Sirota
333
n1

Gozan no Okuribi festival
27
,
28

Grave of the Fireflies
83

Great Kanto earthquake
72
,
77
,
304

Gree
170

Group of Seven
55

Group of Twenty (G20)
308

gun making
60
–61

Hachiko the dog
295

Hadley, Eleanor
81

haiku
45
–6,
63

Hama, Noriko
47
,
53
–4,
159
,
208
–9,
213
,
280
,
284

Hasegawa, Yasuchika
171
,
172

Hashimoto, Ryutaro
133

Hashimoto, Toru
198
–9,
274

Hatakeyama, Shigemitsu
285

Hatoyama, Yukio
244
–6,
247
,
250
–51,
253
–4,
280
–81,
282
,
284

Hatsuzawa, Tomoko
277

Hayashi, Mariko
242
–3

health sector workers
166
–7

Hearn, Lafcadio
6
,
43
,
46

Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
43

Heisei era
104
,
141

Higa, Kazuko
203

higher education
162
,
334
n3

and
shushoku katsudo
(screening/mass hiring of graduates)
180
–81,
192

Higuchi, Yoshio
155

Hinomaru
flag
231
–2,
335
n14

Hirohito, Emperor
3
,
4
,
17
,
104
,
223
,
292

Hiroshima
34
,
70
,
79
,
224
,
264

Hitachi
171
–2

Hitler, Adolf
223

Hokkaido
35
,
49
–50,
240
,
252
,
275

national park
305

Hokusai woodblock prints
8

Holland/the Dutch
32
,
60
,
61
,
63
,
241

Honda, Soichiro
88

Honda (auto company)
88

Hong Kong
xx
,
83

Honshu
35
,
50
,
252

Horyuji temple
58

hostages in Iraq
194
–7

housing
119
,
186
,
293
–4
see also
property

rebuilding, after tsunami
294
–5,
298
–9

temporary
282
,
292
,
293
,
296

Hu Jintao
220

Hubbard, L. Ron, Church of Scientology
109

Huntington, Samuel:
The Clash of Civilizations
35

Hy’s Café, Ofunato
293
,
294
,
295

Ibuka, Masaru
88
–9

ice sculpture
239
,
240

Idei, Nobuyuki
271

identity

and employment
197
–8

and manufacturing
170

under Meiji Restoration
50

and militarism
223

and modernization
50
,
52

state identification system
288

Ienaga, Saburo
229
–31

Iijima, Isao
138
,
139
–41,
157
–8

Iitate
259
–60,
276

Ikeda, Hayato
93

Imai, Noriaki
194
–5,
196
–7,
198
,
199
–201

IMF (International Monetary Fund)
308

Immelt, Jeff
272

immigration
165
–7

Imperial Army, Japanese
70
,
222
,
230
,
248

Inamori, Kazuo
224
–5,
271

Inazo, Nitobe:
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
52

income, per capita
see
living standards/per capita income

India
43
,
60
,
70
,
119
,
166
,
173
,
177
,
206
,
311
,
317

individualism
xxxi
,
71

Indochina
69
,
73
,
228
,
335
n12

Indonesia
56
,
69
,
73
,
167
,
173
,
222
,
311

Industrial Bank of Japan
99
–100,
167

industry, Japanese

business practice
see
company culture and business practice

car
see
car industry

competitiveness
92

computer
94

and the culture of Japanese companies
see
company culture and business practice

electronics
xxii
,
94
,
167
,
170
–71,
253
,
330
n40

and exports
93
,
102

‘hollowing out’
169
–74

managed industrial policy
82

manufacturing
xvii
,
36
,
47
,
148
,
166
,
169
–73,
270
–71,
285
see also
specific industries

Meiji industrialization
66
,
71

Ministry of Trade and Industry
86
–8,
90
,
94

modern default view of
xxiii

monozukuri
170
,
174

nuclear
see
nuclear power and industry

pornography
194

and the post-industrial era
172
–3

post-war: manufacturing
47
,
86
–9; revival
85
–9; US dismantling of wartime industrial complex
84

productivity
see
productivity

recovery from debt
144

restructuring
xxix
,
144
,
179

robotic
94

service
166
,
170
,
329
n25

sex
194
,
215
see also
prostitution

shipbuilding
86

steel
86
–7,
144

and the US
84
–7

World War II destruction of
79
,
83

and
zaibatsu
(business conglomerates)
81
,
92

inflation
85
,
94
,
115
,
124
,
127
,
306
,
307
,
309
–10,
326
n31

information disclosure campaign
287
–8

interest rates
101
,
102
,
114
,
126
,
130
,
144
,
170
,
306
,
309

International Atomic Energy Agency scale
260

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
308

Inukai, Tsuyoshi
72
–3

iodine-131, in Tokyo water supply
275

Iraq
194
–7,
240
–42

Ise shrines
xxvii
,
66

Ishihara, Shintaro
25
,
63
,
79
,
222
,
250
,
311
,
315

The Japan that Can Say No
250

Ishikawa, Yoshi
187
–91

Ito, Masaya
95

Ito, Sei
73

Ito, Takatoshi
115
,
124
,
157
,
162
,
163

Iwakura Mission
86
–7

Iwasaki, Natsumi
178
–9

Iyer, Pico
xx
,
xxx
,
44
,
212

jakuniku-kyoshoku
67

Jansen, Marius
60
,
63

Japan and the Japanese

ageing
160
–64,
167

Ainu people
49
–50

as an archipelago
35

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

banking system
see
banking system

birth rates
161
–2

and Britain
see
Britain: and Japan

burakumin
caste
49

bureaucracy
see
bureaucracy/bureaucrats

and Burma
70
,
73

business
see
company culture and business practice; industry, Japanese; productivity

capitalism
see
capitalism

and China
see
China/the Chinese: and Japan

civil society
xxxiii
,
71
,
269
,
284
–9

company culture
see
company culture and business practice

and complacency
xxi
,
24
,
304

constitution (
AD
604)
58

constitution (1947, American-written)
55
,
80
,
85
,
237
,
239
,
241
,
242
–4,
313
–14

crime
see
crime

and deceit
xxi
,
274

democracy
see
democracy

demographics
160
–65,
168

and the Dutch
32
,
60
,
61
,
63
,
241

earthquakes
see
earthquakes

economy
see
economy of Japan

Edo era
38
–9,
54
,
170

education
see
education; higher education

egalitarianism
see
equality/inequality

employment
see
employment

energy imports
94

and the English language
33
,
167

and Europe
55
,
59
–60,
61

existential angst
xxii

expansionism
53
,
68
see also
militarism, Japanese

fertility rates
160
,
161
–2,
164

feudal order
see
feudal caste system

finance ministry
123
,
128
,
142
,
145

flag
231
–2,
335
n14

food
see
food

foreign residents in Japan
49
,
317