A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower (133 page)

Okubo Toshimichi 
75
,
80
,
85

Okuma Shigenobu 
79
,
89–90
,
109
,
239(n48)

Okuninushi 
6
,
7

Okura
see
Yamanoue Okura

Onin civil war 
44

Onishi Takijir
 
137

onna bugeisha
 
37

Onna Daigaku
 
63

Ono no Komachi 
31

Operation Golden Lily 
146

Oshio Heihachir
 
69

Osugi Sakae 
110

otaku
 
206
,
259(n57)

Ozawa Ichir
 
191

Pacific War 
3
,
126–40
,
157
,
188
,
194
,
198–9
,
245(n88)

see also
Second World War

Paekche (Baekje) 
16–18
,
228(n40, n46)

see also
Korea

parliament
see
Diet

Pearl Harbor 
3
,
4
,
125–9
,
133
,
244(n64)
,
250(n29)

peasantry 
26
,
42
,
44
,
47–8
,
51
,
56
,
61
,
65–7
,
71
,
74
,
80
,
99
,
219
,
233(n6)
,
234(n34)

see also
agriculture

Perry Matthew 
69–70
,
77
,
235(n51, n53)

Philippines 
129–30
,
133–5
,
146
,
234(n22)

Plaza Accord 
171

political parties (general) 
89–90
,
92
,
95
,
106–8
,
151
,
239(n46)

see also
communism/communists, Democratic Party of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan,
Minseit
, Seiy
kai
, and socialists

pollution (environmental) 
168
,
170
,
178

population 
1
,
3
,
5
,
8
,
10–11
,
13
,
19–21
,
26
,
49
,
56–7
,
60
,
64–7
,
73
,
82
,
89
,
92
,
105
,
113
,
117
,
119
,
183
,
185–6
,
195
,
202
,
210
,
222
,
226(n26)
,
252(n58)

Portugal/Portuguese 
4
,
45
,
231(n43)
,
232(n62)

Potsdam Declaration 
136–7
,
145
,
148

pragmatism 
22
,
42
,
52–3
,
77
,
89
,
93
,
95
,
107
,
162
,
180
,
217–18
,
220
,
222–3

Prussia
see
Germany

punishment
see
law

purity/impurity

purity 
33
,
40
,
58
,
84
,
118–19
,
131–2
,
141
,
168
,
173
,
223
,
245(n85)

impurity 
5
,
56
,
131–2
,
223
,
233(n5)
245(n85)

Queen Himiko
see
Himiko, Queen

racial supremacy
see
hierarchy

railways (in Japan) 
82–3
,
95
,
100
,
167
,
175
,
206
,
238(n25)

ranking
see
hierarchy

Recruit Scandal 
175–6
,
181
,
189
,
212

religion (general) 
11
,
17
,
22
,
26
,
35
,
59–60
,
87
,
89
,
92
,
94
,
107
,
148
,
150
,
173
,
196
,
213
,
217–18
,
233(n5)

see also individual religions

Rescript for Soldiers and Sailors
see
Imperial Rescript for Soldiers and Sailors

Rescript on Education
see
Imperial Rescript on Education

reunification of the nation 
45ff

rice, introduction and early cultivation 
3
,
6
,
9–13
,
22
,
40
,
44
,
65
,
225(n12)
,
232(n68)
,
235(n42)

Richardson, Charles 
235–6(n54)

Ridgway, Matthew 
157
,
253(n78)

ritsury
see
law

Roesler, Karl 
240(n51)

Roosevelt, Franklin 
1
,
124–5
,
128
,
136
,
243(n53, n54)
,
248(n9)

Roosevelt, Theodore 
96

Rousseau, J-J. 
83
,
221
,
239(n45)

Russia  xi,
2
,
68
,
70
,
83
,
94–7
,
104
,
106
,
126
,
128–9
,
150
,
194
,
251(n46)
,
252(n58)

see also
Soviet Union

Russo-Japanese War 
95–7
,
103
,
106

Ry
ky
Islands 
8
,
61
,
77
,
158