Hirohito’s role in ending of, 505–6, 514–15, 559, 584, 614
Hirohito’s surrender broadcast in, 504, 526–29
Hirohito’s surrender decision in, 511–19
Hirohito’s surrender rescript in, 525–28, 653
Hirohito’s war crimes charges and, 12–15, 543, 549, 559, 567–68, 589–90; see also Tokyo war crimes trial
Hirohito’s war rescript and, 433–38, 546
homeland defense preparations in, 488, 492, 494–96
Hull-Nomura talks in, 427–32
“Hull note” and, 428–29, 431, 434
Imphal campaign in, 474–75
Japanese aircraft carrier production in, 469
Japanese command shakeup in, 472–73
Japanese defensive strategy in, 446–47, 461, 462–64, 468–70
Japanese losses in, 444, 449, 458, 460–61, 463–64, 466, 468–69, 475, 481, 485
Japan’s surrender in, 525–29
kamikaze attacks in, 481–83, 485, 488, 494–95
Konoe and peace movement in, 478–79
last minute coup attempts in, 519
length of, 443–44
Malik-Hirta talks in, 494, 505–7, 522
“National China” and, 473–74
opportunities missed for ending of, 520–23
peace movement in, 478–79, 480
Potsdam Declaration and, 498–504
and preservation of the kokutai, 491–92, 507, 509, 512–18, 523
and preservation of the monarchy, 499–500, 505, 520, 528
prisoners of war in, 447–48
responsibility for Japan’s defeat in, 533–36
Saipan battle in, 475–76, 477
Soviet declaration of war in, 496
Soviet invasion fears in, 487, 488–90
Soviet invasion of Japan in, 503, 511
Soviet-Japanese peace negotiations in, 504–10
Soviet Union and Japanese strategy in, 397, 399, 402, 444
surrender and authority of emperor in, 518–19, 523
and threat from within, 491–92
Tg-Sat exchange and, 507–8
unconditional surrender doctrine in, 496–98, 500, 503–4, 508–9, 518, 520–22, 526
U.S. bombing campaign in, 490–92, 493, 498
U.S. invasion plans in, 501–2
U.S. oil embargo and, 399, 401, 403–7, 408, 439
U.S. psychological propaganda campaign in, 495–96, 526, 545, 583
U.S. State Department and surrender policy in, 498–500
war responsibility issue and, 516–17, 526–27, 627–28, 639, 649, 653, 658–59, 672, 674–77, 685, 687
Wright, Quincy, 134
Yabe Teiji, 588
Yalta Conference, 490
Yamada Akira, 389, 390
Yamada Otoz, 423, 461
Yamaga Sok, 42
Yamagata Aritomo, 26, 40, 46, 86, 94, 104, 122, 155
Yamagata Aritomo
imperial engagement controversy and, 95–99, 100
Yamaguchi Ichitar, 298
Yamamoto Gonbei, 40, 139–40, 141, 157–58
Yamamoto Isoroku, 324
Hirohito’s rescript to, 458–59
Konoe visited by, 416
Yamamoto Shinjir, 108, 113
Yamashita Tomoyuki [Hbun], 284, 300, 304, 481, 582
“Yamato spirit,” 52, 483
Yamazaki Iwao, 551
Yamazaki Kakujir, 130–31
Yanagawa Heisuke, 332
Yanaihara Tadao, 336
Yashida Masuz, 434
Yasuhito, see Chichibu, Prince
Yasui Tji, 513
Yasukuni Shrine, 622, 653, 682–83
Yasukuni War Museum, 683
Yasuoka Masahiro, 102, 164, 253, 525
Yawata Steel strike, 52
Yin Ju-keng, 286, 322
Yi Un, 35
Yoda Shiro, 258
Yokohama Beki Shimp, 200
Yokota Hideo, 141
Yokota Kisabur, 573
Yomiuri-Hchi, 551, 572, 573
Yomiuri shinbun, 99
Yonai Mitsumasa, 297, 301, 306, 321, 345, 350, 355, 357, 371, 373, 430, 465, 501, 509–10, 511, 515, 583, 584, 585, 586, 590, 597
Yoshida Shigeru, 116–17, 542, 564–65, 570, 574, 575, 624, 633, 634, 636, 642, 643, 649, 650, 651, 653, 656, 668, 670
Dulles’s meeting with, 640–41
Yoshida Yutaka, 652
Yoshida Zengo, 423
Yoshihashi Kaiz, 482, 491
Yoshihito, emperor of Japan (Taish emperor), 21–22, 53, 80, 92, 129, 130, 132, 144, 179, 181, 186, 198, 271, 554
accession of, 40
death of, 171
education of, 37
Hirohito’s relationship with, 24, 25
mental and physical illness of, 88, 93, 94, 96, 104, 106, 123
“Young Japan and Its Global Mission” (editorial), 200
Yuasa Kurahei, 141, 298–99, 304, 306, 355, 370–71
Yukawa Hideki, 638
Yuzonsha, 98
zaibatsu (capital groups), 95, 311
About the Author
HERBERT P. BIX earned his Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University. For the past thirty years, he has written extensively on modern and contemporary Japanese history in leading journals in the United States and Japan. He has taught Japanese history at a number of American and Japanese universities, most recently at Harvard as well as Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and is a professor of history and sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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