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Authors: Herbert P. Bix

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Doolittle, James, 448

Douhet, Giulio, 312

“Draft Plan for Controlling the Crisis Situation” (Kido), 493

Dulles, John Foster, 640–42, 644, 651

Dutch East Indies,
see
Netherlands East Indies

 

Eagleton, Clyde, 134

East Asia Common Culture Society (T
a D
bunkai), 176

East Asia League (T
'A renmei), 540

Education Ministry, Japanese, 31–32, 63, 201–2, 281, 283, 288, 290, 313, 314, 624, 659, 680

Egi Tasuku, 160

Egypt, 107, 454

Eichelberger, Robert, 471

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 662–63

MacArthur's “Secret” telegram to, 567–68

Eisenhower administration, 660

Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 650

Embree, Ella, 281–82

Embree, John, 281–82

“Emperor's Account of the Secret History of Sh
wa, The,” 589

“emperor's army” (
K
gun
), 154

emperor theory:

act of surrender in, 520–21

ancestors in, 119–20

Buddhism and, 164

constitutional interpretation and, 77–78, 80–81

country people and, 281–83

cult of, 27–28

education in, 58–59, 71–72

emperor's divinity in, 71–72, 281–83, 287;
see also
Hirohito, emperor of Japan, divinity of

enthronement ritual in, 189

extraconstitutional bodies and, 78–79

German constitutional thought and, 79–80

as ideology of militarism and fascism, 374

imperial regalia in, 63, 73, 121–22

kokutai
debate and, 161–62, 253, 287

line of succession and, 63

as locus of sovereignty, 77–79

Meiji as model for, 39–40, 80

nationalism and, 4, 40

nonresponsibility and nonaccountability of emperor in, 79, 291

oath rituals in, 64–65, 80

organ theory in, 77, 80, 208, 287–95

in proposed film, 273–74

race and, 11, 69–71

religion and, 30, 57–58, 164, 283

and right of supreme command, 290–91, 304

rule theory and, 77

as sacred and unviolable, 7–8

Shinto mythology and, 283

Shiratori's history textbook and, 70–73

sovereign-subject relationship in, 64–65, 70–71, 119–20

state-monarchy relationship and, 77–78

Sugiura's lectures on, 64–70

emperor worship, cult of, 202–3

enthronement rituals:

Ceremonies Commission and, 187–88

and concept of Japan as hub of world, 200–201

deification ceremony in, 191, 192–93

Diet and, 186

food-offering ceremony of, 192

Hirohito-Meiji link and, 186

Hirohito's public address in, 191–92

imperial image and, 189

imperial procession in, 191

imperial regalia and, 191

kokutai
-science relationship stressed in, 199–200

in Korea, 190–91

media and, 187–91, 193, 195

and military activity in China, 187

military reviews in, 193–94

nationalism and, 224

national morality and, 199

prisoner amnesties and, 189–90

secret rites in, 193

thought control apparatus and, 187

Era-Name Law, 679–80

“Essentials for Implementing Administration in the Occupied Southern Area,” 434

“Essentials of Peace Negotiations” (
wahei k
sh
no y
ry
) (Konoe and Sakai), 510–11

Ethiopia, 349

Et
Genkur
, 287, 336

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