A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower (124 page)

Anti-Comintern Pact 
122–3

Antoku, Emperor 
32–3
,
37

Aoshima Yukio 
190

Arai Hakuseki 
65
,
235(n46)

Asano Naganori 
62

Asanuma Inejir
 
166–7

Ashida Hitoshi 
156

Ashikaga family/sh
gunate 
41–5

see also individual members

Ashikaga Tadayoshi 
43

Ashikaga Takauji 
41–3

Ashikaga Yoshiaki 
46

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu 
43–4
,
218

Asia 
1–3
,
8–10
,
38
,
50
,
61
,
68
,
93–5
,
112
,
116–26
,
132–3
,
139–40
,
145–7
,
168
,
173–4
,
178
,
188
,
191
,
198–200
,
213
,
215
,
226(n23)
,
227(n27)
,
238(n21, n27)
,
241(n5)

see also individual nations

Aso Tar
 
192

atomic/nuclear bombs

American 
1
,
136–40
,
164
,
174
,
246(n105)
,
247(n107)

Japanese 
4
,
136
,
246–7(n106)

AUM Shinriky
 
196
,
199
,
213
,
215

Australia 
77–8
,
111
,
124
,
130
,
133
,
135
,
146
,
187
,
192
,
211
,
234(n22)
,
242(n34)
,
244(n78)
,
248(n7)
,
250(n24)
,
253(n79)

authoritarianism 
93
,
109
,
138
,
140
,
143
,
153
,
166–7
,
177
,
218
,
221

see also under
democracy

Bae Yong Joon 
203
,
213

Bash
see
Matsuo Bash

birth-rate 
20
,
185–6
,
201

Blakeslee, George 
143
,
249(n17)

Borton, Hugh 
4
,
143
,
146
,
149
,
246(n102)
,
248(n10)
,
249(n17)
,
251(n32)

Boshin War 
37
,
236(n3)

Bowers, Faubion
248(n4)

Britain/British  xi,
68
,
70–1
,
75
,
77
,
82
,
84
,
86
,
89–90
,
94
,
96–7
,
106
,
110–12
,
115
,
124
,
126
,
128–30
,
133
,
135
,
138–9
,
143
,
171
,
183–5
,
197
,
199
,
203
,
233–4(n21)
,
235(n53, n54)
,
236(n54)
,
236–7(n4)
,
239(n45)
,
240(n68)
,
241(n5)
,
243(n50)
,
248(n7)
,
255(n104)

‘Bubble Economy’
see
economy

Buddhism 
17–19
,
22
,
26
,
33
,
40
,
44
,
51
,
228(n47)

bunraku
 
65

Burma 
130
,
133
,
135

Burma Railway 
135

bushi see
samurai

Carletti, Francesco 
58
,
233(n10)

Caron, Francois 
58

Chang Tso-lin (Zhang Zuolin) 
114

Charter Oath 
76
,
78–9
,
148
,
237(n5)

Chennault, Claire 
124

Chiang Kai-shek 
122
,
136
,
154

Chichibu, Prince 
115

China/Chinese

general 
12
,
14–15
,
18–20
,
25
,
30
,
38–9
,
45
,
61
,
94–5
,
124–5
,
132–3
,
152
,
154
,
157
,
184
,
210–11
,
227(n26, n35)
,
228(n46)
,
230(n21, n22)
,
232(n4)
,
237(n21)
,
238(n32)
,
239(n37)
,
240(n68)
,
248(n7)
,
259(n68)

as mentor/influence on Japan 
10
,
17–19
,
22–30
,
40
,
50–2
,
56
,
61–5
,
72
,
211
,
218–20
,
227(n31)
,
228(n47)
,
245(n88)

as object of Japanese aggression/hostility 
2
,
18
,
50
,
93–5
,
106
,
110–11
,
114–15
,
119
,
122–3
,
125
,
128–9
,
140
,
191
,
194
,
198–200
,
213
,
237(n13)

as possible threat to Japan 
3
,
14
,
43
,
77–8

as victorious postwar power 
143
,
248(n7)
,
250(n24)
,
253(n79)

western interest in 
3
,
68
,
94–5

Ch
sh
 
70–1
,
73
,
75
,
78
,
89
,
95