A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower (138 page)

Wei Chih
 
14–15
,
230(n28)

westernisation 
81–5
,
103–6
,
237(n14)
,
238(n27)

see also
Americanisation

Willoughby, Charles 
253(n66)

World War One
see
First World War

World War Two
see
Second World War

Woronoff, Jon 
175

writing, introduction and early development 
17–18
,
22
,
24–5

Xavier, Francis 
45

Yamaga Sok
 
62–3

Yamagata Aritomo 
75
,
86
,
90
,
93
,
95
,
108
,
239(n40)

Yamamoto Gonbei 
109

Yamamoto Isoroku 
125

Yamana family 
43

Yamanoue Okura 
20
,
26–7

Yamatai 
4
,
14–15
,
227(n36)

Yamazaki Ansai 
63

Yanai Shinsaku 
189

Yasuda 
152

Yasukuni Shrine (official postwar visits) 
173
,
191

‘Yellow Peril’ 123

yin and yang 
63

Yokoyama Isamu 
190

Y
mei 
17–18

Yosano Akiko 
103

Yoshida Shigeru 
150
,
152–6
,
163–4
,
221
,
249(n17)

Yoshida Sh
in 
70

Yoshihito
see
Taish
, Emperor

Yukawa Hideki 
246(n106)

Y
ryaku 
17

zaibatsu
 
100
,
113
,
121
,
144
,
152
,
155
,
161
,
176–7
,
252(n55)

see also individual
zaibatsu

Zekkai 
44

Zen 
40
,
44
,
51