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- Abashiri Prison, 81
- Abe Shintarō, 237, 320n73
- Abe Shinzō, 251–252, 255, 320n73
- Adachi Hatazō, 59
- Aichi Prefecture, 248, 249
- air raids, 50, 53–54; US, 36, 47, 68, 94–95, 100, 120
- Akahata. See Red Flag
- Akita Prefecture. See Hanaoka Mine incident
- Akita Prison, 84
- Akiyama Masahiro, 237
- Alexievich, Svetlana, 8
- Algeria, 19, 256. See also France
- Allied Council of Japan, 64
- amnesty, 18, 92, 152, 171, 217; by the PRC, 181–182, 213–214, 315n59
- Amō Eiji, 122
- Anami Korechika, 59
- anchors, 8, 10–13, 15. See also Dingyuan warship; Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95; Weihaiwei; Zhenyuan warship
- Anshan, 195
- Aoki Tokuzō, 71, 285n47
- apology, 133, 163, 239, 243, 255; Japanese reluctance, 4, 68, 197
- Arai Toshio, 160, 164
- The Argument for Japan’s Innocence: Judging the Truth, 172
- Arima Torao, 155
- Asahi Newspaper, 11, 125, 160, 200, 221–222; atomic bomb, 59; debate on postwar constitution, 237–239; great amnesty, 92; trials, 164, 183; war criminals, 72, 86, 88, 181, 251, 304n100
- Asanuma Inejirō, 196
- Ashida Hitoshi, 66
- Asian Conference on the Relaxation of International Tension, 189
- Asian People’s Anti-Communist League, 91
- assassinations, 84, 88, 114, 126, 323n45
- atomic bomb, 38, 44, 59, 66, 96, 105, 255. See also hydrogen bomb
- Attlee, Clement, 82
- Australia, 54, 58, 245; Manus Island Prison, 171; Rabaul, 49–52, 59, 111–112, 245, 281n40, 282n50; trials, 16, 30–32, 37, 46, 59, 109, 281n49
- Baba Tsunego, 73
- bacteriological weapons, 16, 137. See also biological warfare
- Bai Buzhou, 299n20
- Bai Chongxi, 100, 126
- Baldwin, James, 259
- Ball, Macmahon, 64
- Bandung Conference, 148, 189
- Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 232
- Bataan Death March, 68
- Beijing radio, 175
- Beijing University (Peking University), 160, 236
- Beituan Village, 4, 23–24, 156–160, 165, 240–241; interviews, 2, 156, 272n2
- Between God and Man, 250
- bilateral loans, 223
- bilateral relations, 20, 56, 136, 151, 189, 252, 258
- biological warfare, 30, 166. See also bacteriological weapons
- Black Dragon Society, 122
- Borneo, 109–110
- Boxer Rebellion, 223
- brainwashing, 165, 242, 304n100. See also Robert Guillain
- Bridge House, 129
- Britain. See United Kingdom
- British Empire, 16
- British Foreign Office, 124, 129, 195, 309n10
- Brushing Away Dust from the Mirror of History, 202
- Burma, 16, 171, 274n39
- Buruma, Ian, 38
- Cambodia, 37, 239, 255
- Cambridge University, 43
- Canadian Legation, 64
- cannibalism, 76
- Canton, 29. See also Guangdong Province
- censorship, 1, 62, 133, 188, 205, 217, 228
- Center for the Tokyo Trial Studies, 133, 258
- century of humiliation. See humiliation
- Chahar Province, 209, 314n16
- Changchun, 99, 195, 211, 215; People’s Court, 211
- Changi Prison, Singapore, 112
- Chaoyang University, 142
- chemical weapons, 30, 251. See also poison gas
- Chen Cheng, 99
- Chen Kwok Leong, 51
- Chen Shuliang, 301n46
- Chen Yi, 105–106, 215
- Chernobyl, 8
- Chiang Ching-kuo, 218
- Chiang Kai-shek, 99–100, 218; vs. communists, 26, 117, 202, 207–208, 212–214; vs. Japan, 42, 45–46, 125, 151, 181, 183, 273n23; Taiwan, 57, 91, 106, 108, 218, 221, 244–246
- China Daily newspaper, 208
- China’s Auschwitz: A True Record of the Japanese and the Taiyuan Detention Camp, 132
- China Youth Daily, 256
- Chinese Criminal Law, 193
- Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, 7
- Chinese People’s Foreign Affairs Study Association, 196
- Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, 141, 231
- Chinese People’s Volunteers Army (CPV), 116–118
- Chinese Red Cross. See Red Cross
- Chongqing, 43, 61, 99, 209–210, 214, 246; UNWCC subcommittee, 28, 124
- Chongryun. See Sōren
- Chōren (League of Korean Residents in Japan), 83–84
- Chūkiren. See Liaison Group of Returnees from China
- CIA, 90, 123
- Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park, 245–246
- City of Sadness, 203
- Classes B and C war criminals, 15, 37
- Clausewitz, Carl von, 101
- Cohen, Jerome, 202
- Cold War, 30, 37–40, 173, 186, 201
- collaborators, 17, 42, 98–99, 115, 134, 161
- colonialism, 38, 65–66; Japanese, 56, 106, 109, 245
- Columbia University, 174
- comfort women, 128, 165, 252
- Cominform, 88, 178
- Committee on Judicial Affairs, 172
- Community of Resident South Koreans in Japan (Mindan), 85
- coolies, 50
- Council for Dealing with the End of the War, 67, 70
- crimes against humanity, 15, 152
- crimes against peace, 15, 20, 121, 123–125
- criminal accountability, 14
- Crown Prince. See Hirohito
- cultural heritage, 132, 248
- Cultural Revolution, 133, 167, 217, 222; chaos of, 225–226, 228–229; transition from, 222, 225, 229, 231–233, 235
- Dai Li, 214
- Dalian, 137, 185
- Danshui (Tamsui), 104, 108
- decolonization, 37–38, 40, 61, 104, 148
- de-imperialization, 55, 61, 113
- democracy, 72, 85, 88, 105, 203–204, 226, 245
- Democracy Wall, 226
- democratization, 21, 36, 61, 87, 93, 114
- demonstrations, 121, 175
- Deng Liqun, 233
- Deng Xiaoping, 226, 228, 230–231, 233–234
- Denning, Esler, 194
- Derevyanko, Kuzma Nikolaevich, 74
- diaries, 35, 47, 93, 131, 160, 191; Japanese soldiers’, 2, 69, 76, 165; Vyshinsky’s, 137
- Dingyuan warship, 8–9, 13. See also Zhenyuan warship; Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95
- Doihara Kenji, 125
- Dong Biwu, 140, 144–145, 148
- Dong Yisan, 208
- Doolittle Raid, 68, 120
- Duan Kewen, 211
- Duan Ruicong, 77
- Dumas, Alexandre, 181
- Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), 16, 39, 105, 282n50. See also the Netherlands
- Du Yuming, 152, 212, 214–215
- East Germany, 201
- Eckert, Carter, 56
- Edwards, Jack, 109–110, 293n62
- Egypt, 195
- Eighth Route Army, 60, 86, 157–158, 162–163, 165, 210
- Eisenhower, Dwight, 177
- Emmerson, John, 81–82. See also Fuchū Prison
- emperor. See Hirohito
- Endō Saburō, 190–191, 193–195
- England. See United Kingdom
- espionage, 122, 147, 194, 210, 218, 318n32; KMT, 214; Richard Sorge, 89–90, 180
- extraterritoriality, 26–27, 29, 137. See also Ju Zheng
- famine, 235. See also starvation
- Fan Yuanyan, 218
- fascism, 30, 89, 117, 158, 163, 200, 228
- FBI, 219
- February 28 Incident, 13, 100, 106–108, 114, 148, 202–203, 245. See also George Kerr; Shibuya Incident; Jeju Incident
- Fei Xiaotong, 230. See also Gang of Four Trial
- Feng Jingyu, 155
- First National People’s Congress, 148, 153, 205
- forced labor, 47–50, 167, 189, 196, 204. See also Rabaul
- Formosa, 106, 201–202, 281n45
- Formosans, 50–51, 108
- Fort Hunt, 69, 285n37
- France, 11, 16–17, 34, 37, 60, 200, 256. See also Algeria; Saigon
- freedom of speech, 66, 108
- Fuchū Prison, 79, 81, 84. See also Kim Ch’on-hae; Robert Guillain; Shiga Yoshio; Tokuda Kyūichi
- Fudan University, 147
- Fujita Shigeru, 155, 207, 303n88. See also Fushun: Prison
- Fujiwara Akira, 94, 164, 166, 234
- Fukuda Kumajirō, 185
- Fukushima, 86, 251
- Funabashi Yōichi, 251
- Furumi Tadayuki, 206
- Furuya Keiji, 259
- Fuse Tatsuji, 82
- Fushun, 118, 149, 153, 215, 240, 310n25, 321; Prison, 144, 164, 167, 189, 195, 210–217, 311n33; War Criminals Management Center, 144, 167, 209–213, 241–243. See also Fujita Shigeru; Hou Jiahua; Jin Yuan; Pu Yi; Zhao Yuying
- Gang of Four Trial, 103, 148, 225, 228–232. See also Fei Xiaotong; Henry Qiu
- Gao Wenbin, 128–129, 279n16
- Gates, Thomas, 225
- Gayn, Mark, 70
- Geneva Conference, 37
- Geneva Convention, 61
- genocide, 14–15, 160
- Germany, 11, 15, 200–201; Nazi, 17, 67, 255–256
- global justice, 235
- Gongdelin Prison, 208–210, 212
- Goodhart, Arthur Lehman, 43
- Gordon, Beate Sirota, 89
- Gorman, Amanda, 255–256
- Great Amnesty, 92
- Great Britain, 16, 60, 82. See also United Kingdom
- Great Leap Forward, 215, 235
- Greene, Felix, 214. See also Bernard Montgomery
- Greene, Graham, 214
- Guangdong Province, 43, 111, 157. See also Canton
- Guangming Daily, 227
- Guantanamo, 220, 316n71
- The Guardian newspaper, 133
- Guillain, Robert, 79, 81, 286n4. See also Fuchū Prison; brainwashing
- Guo Moruo, 187, 194; and Iwanami Shigeo, 56
- Hakamada Satomi, 188
- Hamilton, William, 30
- Hanaoka Mine incident, 49, 102
- Hanayama Shinshō, 121, 124–125
- Hangzhou, 96
- hanjian (traitor), 16, 43
- Hao Shaoan, 206
- Harbin, 241, 246–247
- Harvard University, 43–44, 56
- Hata Ikuhiko, 165
- Hatoyama Ichirō, 148, 181
- Hayashi Itsurō, 248
- Hayashi Miki, 109
- Hayes, Eric, 61, 283n11
- Hebei Province, 2, 177, 209, 314n16
- Heilongjiang Province, 251
- heroes: Chinese, 117–118, 219, 236, 243, 247; Japanese, 63, 90, 248, 310n27
- He Yingqin, 43, 100, 302n58
- Hibiya Park, Tokyo, 85, 87
- Higashikuni Naruhiko, 35, 66–68, 71, 78, 87, 190
- Higuchi Jinichi, 280n34
- Hino Ashihei, 189
- Hirano Ryūji, 116
- Hirano Yoshitarō, 175
- Hirohito, Emperor, 35, 58–59, 67, 84, 92–93, 273n23
- Hiroshima, 38, 55, 59, 123, 189–190
- Hirota Akira, trial of, 51
- historical memory, 13, 236, 256
- historical nihilism (lishi xuwuzhuyi), 235
- historical resolution, 233, 320n61
- Hitler youth, 202
- Hoashi Kei, 141, 174–175
- Ho Chi Minh, 123
- Hohhot, 214
- Hokkaido, 80, 196
- Holland. See the Netherlands
- Hollond, Henry Arthur, 43
- Holocaust, 28, 132, 160
- Honda Katsuichi, 128, 165
- Honda Masakazu, 160
- Hong Kong, 16, 175, 183, 217–218, 232; POW camps, 29, 171; trials, 31, 41, 109
- Honma Masaharu, 68
- Hosoda Hiromu, 51
- Hou Hsiao-hsian, 203
- Hou Jiahua, 241–242. See also Fushun: Prison
- Hsia Ch’in, 43. See also Roscoe Pound
- Hsueh Hua-yuan, 245
- Hua Guofeng, 225–226
- Huang Hua, 222
- Huang Tiancai, 117
- Huang Wei, 212–214
- human rights, 105, 117, 219, 239
- humiliation, national, 7–9, 11–13, 15, 26, 149
- Hundred Flowers Campaign, 168
- hundred-man killing contest, 21, 127, 129. See also Noda Tsuyoshi and Mukai Toshiaki
- Hungarian uprising (1956), 210
- Hu Qiaomu, 233
- Hu Yaobang, 225, 228, 238
- hydrogen bomb, 190. See also atomic bomb
- Ichigō, 100
- Ichikawa Iyū, 248
- Ichimata Masao, 198–199
- Ikeda Hayato, 198
- Imamura Hitoshi, 51–52, 54, 282n50
- imperialism, 38, 109, 144, 256; Japanese, 11–12, 84, 91, 163, 178, 234; US, 141–143, 180, 225
- imperial navy, 11, 64–65, 92–93, 197
- Inada Tomomi, 22
- Inami Ninrei, 322n26
- indemnity, 11, 223
- Indochina, 16, 17, 37, 60, 115
- Indonesia. See Dutch East Indies
- industrialization, 38, 39, 137
- Inner Mongolia, 133, 314n16
- Inoue Masutarō, 193
- Inoue Tadao, 198
- intelligence services, 69, 89, 123, 134, 202, 219
- Internationale (communist anthem), 79
- International Military Tribunal (IMT), 14–15
- interpreters, 102, 117, 136, 279n16. See also translators
- Iron Curtain, 22
- Isaacs, Harold, 34, 79, 81
- Ishikiriyama Hideaki, 160
- Ishiwara Kanji, 70
- Isogai Rensuke, 190–191
- Itagaki Seishirō, 198
- Itō Ritsu, 88, 90, 141, 178–181, 187–189, 210, 226–228
- Itō Toshiharu, 272n2
- Iwanami Shigeo, 56
- Iwata Chūzō, 67
- Jackson, Henry, 247
- Jackson, Robert, 63
- Japan Association of War Bereaved Families (Izokukai), 198
- Japan Conference. See Nippon Kaigi
- Japanese Communist Party (JCP), 62, 64, 78–90, 178, 226–228; CCP, 86, 141, 180, 186–189, 227–228; Itō Ritsu, 90, 141, 178–181, 187–189, 210, 226–228, 289n58; John Emmerson, 81–82; Koreans/Chōren, 83–84, 288n43; Nosaka Sanzō, 81–82, 86–88, 178–181, 188; Red Flag newspaper, 85, 88, 178–179, 288n45; return of POWs, 89, 180; Soviet Union, 88, 91, 180; Tokuda Kyūichi, 80–82, 188; United States, 82, 86–87, 89–91, 113, 141, 178–179; war criminals, 82, 85–88, 173, 237, 250; Zhao Anbo, 180, 188, 307n32
- Japanese militarism. See militarism
- Japanese Socialist Party (JSP), 173, 181–182, 191, 196, 237
- Japan Red Cross Society. See Red Cross
- Japan’s Road to the Pacific War, 198
- JCP. See Japanese Communist Party
- Jeju Incident, 100, 112–116. See also Shibuya Incident; February 28 Incident
- Jiang Hua, 232
- Jiang Qing, 229, 230–232
- Jiangsu Province, 119
- Jia Qian, 149, 154, 205–207
- Jin Luxian, 210
- Jin Yuan, 209–213. See also Fushun: Prison
- Johns Hopkins University, 174
- Jōno Hiroshi, 144, 161, 195
- Journey to China, 165
- Joy, C. Turner, 117
- JSP. See Japanese Socialist Party
- Judicial Affairs Deliberation Office (Hōmu shinsashitsu), 75
- Judicial Council (sifa yuan), 26
- Ju Zheng, 26–27. See also extraterritoriality
- Kajima Corporation, 47, 49
- Kameda Tōgo, 181–182
- kamikaze pilots, 94, 251
- Kamisago Shōshichi, 104–105
- Kanbayashiyama Eikichi, 191–192, 301n22
- Kaneko Fumiko, 84
- Kang Ze, 152, 208
- Katayama Tetsu, 190, 193–195
- Katō Rinpei, 52
- Kawanishi Kinji, 155–156
- Kaya Okinori, 33, 47, 198, 250
- Kazami Akira, 190
- Keelung City, 108
- Keenan, Joseph, 45, 63–64
- Keiō University, 81
- Ke Jingxing, 110
- kempeitai, 129, 134
- Kerr, George, 106. See also February 28 Incident
- Khabarovsk, 174; trial, 16, 31, 137
- Khmer Rouge trials, 255
- Khrushchev, Nikita, 149–150
- Kiangwan (Jiangwan), 119–120
- Kido Kōichi, 67–68
- Kim Ch’on-hae, 80–81, 84. See also Fuchū Prison
- Kim Il Sung, 97, 116
- Kimura Tokutarō, 171–172
- Kinkaseki (Jinguashi), 109–110, 293n62
- Kinoshita Junji, 249–250
- Kishi Nobusuke, 47, 122, 191–192, 195–198, 223–224
- Kissinger, Henry, 222, 316n4
- Kita Reikichi, 176
- Kiyose Ichirō, 83
- Koga, Yukiko, 20
- Koiso Kuniaki, 248
- Koje Island (Geoje), 116
- kokutai (national polity), 70, 78
- Komatsu Shinichi, 63, 76
- Kōmeitō Party, 223
- Kōmyō Temple, Yokohama, 250, 323n39
- Konoe Fumimaro, 67
- Kōra Tomi, 141, 174–176
- Korean War, 138, 143, 178, 185, 211; Chinese view of, 150, 167; POW repatriation, 115–118, 217; start of, 116, 135, 178, 246
- Koskenniemi, Martti, 18–19
- Kōzen Temple, Yokohama, 248, 250
- Kuboyama Crematorium, Yokohama, 248
- Kuching detention camp, 109–110
- Kuroki Shigenori, 86
- Kuzuu Yoshihisa, 122
- Kwantung Army, 6
- Kyoto, 86, 175, 200
- Labuan, 110
- Lan Gongwu, 140
- laogai (reform through labor) incarceration system, 204
- Last Wills and Testaments of the Century, 111
- Law of the Soviet State, 139
- LDP. See Liberal Democratic Party
- League of Korean Residents in Japan (Chōren), 83–84
- Lee, Haiyan, 4
- Lee Teng-hui, 244
- legitimacy, 38, 46, 137, 147, 216–217, 233, 243–245; international, 28, 30, 41, 205, 214
- Lei Hao, 208, 213
- Lenin, V. I., 145, 235. See also Marxism
- Liaison Group of Returnees from China (Chūgoku kikansha renrakukai, Chūkiren), 155, 164–167, 175, 212, 242, 302n65
- Li An, 111
- Lian Xisheng, 153, 158
- Liao Chengzhi, 151, 176, 184, 189, 191, 195, 311n33
- Liaodong Peninsula, 11, 183
- Liaoning Province, 144, 152, 216
- Liao Yaoxiang, 151
- Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), 22, 182, 191, 194, 252, 258
- Liberal Party, 176
- Liberation Daily, 26
- Li Chuli, 180
- Li Dequan, 173, 176, 183–184, 187
- Li Dexiang, 158–159
- Li Fang, 143, 150
- Li Fushan, 299n20, 301n46
- Li Jiajing, 131
- Li Liang, 130–131
- Lin Biao, 221, 228–229; Incident, 221
- Lin Jiangshan, 111–112
- Lin Jinlong, 111
- Li Qingxiang, 2–4, 156, 240
- Listen to the Voices of the Sea, 200
- Little Red Book, Mao’s, 222
- Liu Binyan, 215
- Liu Jie, 257
- Liu Jisheng, 279n16
- Liu Lianren, 196
- Liu Linsheng, 132–133, 241, 279n16, 298n41
- Liu Ningyi, 190
- Liu Shaoqi, 188, 222
- Liu Tong, 133–134, 164
- Liu Wei Pao, 50
- Liu Zijian, 279n16
- live target practice, 162–163
- Li Weixun, 50
- Li Yechu, 129–133
- Li Yuqin, 215
- Li Zhiqun, 129–131
- London, 28, 43, 45, 123, 194, 248
- London School of Economics, 81
- looting, 43, 52, 106–107
- Lord Wright. See Wright, Robert
- Luku Incident, 108
- Luo Ruiqing, 151, 215
- Lu Xinfang, 50
- MacArthur, Douglas, 74, 92, 103, 121, 239; and Charles Willoughby, 82, 89–90; Chinese criticism of, 122, 137–138, 296n10
- Mainichi Newspaper, 22, 70
- Mainland Problems magazine, 185
- Malaya, 112
- Malaysia, 110
- Manchester Guardian, 35
- Manchukuo, 6, 56, 116, 174; KMT and, 46, 98–100, 107, 150; last emperor Pu Yi, 31, 151, 214, 241; POWs from, 137, 155, 192, 241; war criminals, 150–152, 206, 211
- Manchuria, 97–98, 108, 116
- Manchurian Incident, 70, 153
- Manchurian Military Academy, 56
- Manila, 111
- Man in the Iron Mask, 181
- Manus Island prison, 171
- Maoism, 140, 222, 226, 230, 233–234
- Marco Polo Bridge, 6–7
- marriage law, China’s, 147, 154
- Marshall Plan, 38
- martial law: on Jeju Island, 114; in Taiwan, 13, 106, 201, 203
- martyrs, 53, 90, 122, 235–236; Day, 236; monuments, 17, 236, 243–244, 248–249
- Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, 39, 140, 148, 234. See also Lenin
- Matsui Iwane, 121, 172, 248–249
- Matsukawa Incident, 88
- Matsumoto Jiichirō, 182
- Matsumura Giichi, 71–72, 285n50
- Matsumura Kenzō, 223
- Matsushima Tozaburō, 50
- Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters, 47
- McCarthy hearings, 82
- Meiji Restoration, 9, 35, 56–57, 63, 237
- Mei Ruao, 26, 31–32, 44, 141–143, 149, 153; criticism of US, 122, 137
- migration, 38, 60
- Miki Kiyoshi, 82
- militarism, Japanese, 70, 72, 86, 141, 163, 166, 225
- military courts, 102, 124
- Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution, 12
- Mindan (Community of Resident South Koreans in Japan), 85
- Ministry of Defense archives, Japan, 160, 165
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Japan, 59, 63, 65, 75, 102, 194, 237; Diplomatic Archives, 317nn13–14; report on Chinese POWs, 48; war criminals, 65, 67, 74–75
- “miscarriages of justice” (yuanjia cuoan), 225
- Mitaka Incident, 88
- Miyakoshi Kisuke, 174–175
- Miyamoto Kenji, 188, 289n58
- Miyazawa Kiichi, 237–239, 321n78
- modernization, 9, 35, 56, 97, 147, 226, 231
- MOFA. See Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Monaco, 173
- Mongolia, 98, 136, 221; Inner, 133, 314n16
- Mongol United Autonomous Government, 150
- Monopoly Bureau, 106
- Montgomery, Bernard, 214–215. See also Felix Greene
- Monument to the People’s Heroes, 236
- Morimatsu Toshio, 160
- Moscow, 86, 136, 173–174, 180, 226. See also USSR
- Mount Kōya, 251
- Mount Sangane, 249
- Mukai Toshiaki, 127–128. See also hundred-man killing contest
- Mukden. See Shenyang
- Murata Shōzō, 185–186
- Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution, 12
- mustard gas, 237
- Mu Xin, 227
- Nabeyama Sadachika, 91
- Nagasaki, 96, 105, 123; Incident, 9–10
- Nakamura Kan’emon, 181–182
- Nakamura Toyoichi, 74–75
- Nakasone Yasuhiro, 35–36, 237–239, 321n78
- Nan Hanchen, 174
- Nanjing, 126, 129, 209, 273n23, 297n22; hundred-man killing contest, 21, 127, 129; Japan’s surrender, 61, 302n58; Number Two Archives, 133; POW camp, 50; Provisional Government, 46, 99; trials, 45, 126–128
- Nanjing Massacre, 13, 127, 135, 249, 259; denial of, 252; evidence for, 40, 44–45; Memorial Museum, 12, 241
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 195
- national polity (kokutai), 70, 78
- National Press Club, 259
- National Sichuan University, 147
- Nazis, 89, 99, 123, 236; atrocities, 14–15, 42, 160, 258; comparison with Japan, 65, 67; in France, 17, 60, 255–256; war criminals, 14, 45, 201
- Nemoto Ryūtarō, 194
- Nenjiang camp, 216
- the Netherlands, 16, 34. See also Dutch East Indies
- New Korea Constructive Alliance, 85
- Newsweek, 79, 81
- New York Times, 149, 316n71
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 19–20, 37
- NHK, 48, 167, 272n2
- Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), 22, 252, 275n58
- Nippon Mining Company, 109
- Nishii Kenichi, 181
- Nishimatsu construction company, 47
- Nishinomiya Sports Stadium, 11
- Nishizawa Takaji, 180
- Nixon, Richard, 218, 222, 223
- Ni Zhengyu, 43–44. See also Roscoe Pound
- Nobel Prize for Literature, 8
- Noda Tsuyoshi, 127–128. See also hundred-man killing contest
- Nomizo Masaru, 191
- Norimura Kaneko, 59
- Norman, E. H., 81
- North Korea, 39, 60, 97–98, 116, 175
- Nosaka Sanzō, 81–82, 86–88, 178–181, 188
- Nuremberg, 14–15, 55, 124, 198–199, 230, 258; China’s view, 25, 256; lawyer for, 63; legal and political problems, 23; Principles, 14, 23
- Oda Makoto, 94–95
- Odamura Shirō, 250–251
- Ōe Yoshiwaka, 160, 237
- Ōhashi Takeo, 172, 306n8
- Okada Tasuku, 198
- Okamoto Masano, 96–97
- Okamura Yasuji, 125
- Okano Kiyohide, 176, 307n33
- Okazaki Katsuo, 75
- Okinawa, 58, 80, 224, 234
- Okino Matao, 69
- Okunoin Temple, 251
- Olympics (Japan, 1964), 198
- Operation Ichigō, 100
- Opium Wars, 8
- oral histories, 202, 240–241, 281n40
- Osaka, 86, 94, 175
- Overseas Development Aid (ODA), 223
- Ōyama Ikuo, 181
- Ozaki Hotsumi, 89–90
- Pacific War, 11, 37, 72, 75
- Pal, Radhabinod, 171–172, 199
- Pan-Asianism, 224
- Pan Zhenya, 301n46
- Papua New Guinea, 49–50, 244–245
- Park Chung-hee, 56, 114
- Park Geun-hye, 252
- Park Yeol, 84–85
- patriotic education (China), 235, 257
- Peace Preservation Law, 78, 87
- Peace Protection Committee, 181
- Pearl Harbor, 35, 59, 123
- Peking University. See Beijing University
- Peng Dehuai, 193
- Peng Ming-min, 105, 202
- Peng Yan, 193
- Peng Zhen, 191
- People’s Daily, 146, 189, 213, 228, 230; criticism of US decisions, 117, 137
- People’s Liberation Army. See PLA
- People’s Newspaper, 85, 89
- Percival, Arthur, 61
- Philippines, 16, 63, 68, 76, 105, 171, 285n34
- Pingfang site, 246–247
- Ping-Pong diplomacy, 223
- PLA (People’s Liberation Army), 116–118, 155, 182, 212, 215, 218
- plague in China, 166
- poison gas, 3, 33, 156–160, 165–166, 212, 237, 305n106. See also chemical weapons
- Port Arthur, 183
- Pound, Roscoe, 43–44, 279n6. See also Hsia Ch’in; Ni Zhengyu
- Pritchard, John, 110
- Progressive Newspaper, 155
- Protect the Nation Shrine (Gokoku jinja), 244
- Pulitzer Prize, 19
- puppet kingdom See Manchukuo
- Pu Yi, last emperor, 31, 151, 214, 241. See also Fushun: Prison
- Rabaul, 49–52, 59, 111–112, 245, 281n40, 282n50. See also forced labor
- Recollections of Reforming the War Criminals, 143
- Red Cross, 173, 175–176, 183–184
- Red Flag (Akahata), 85, 88, 178–179, 288n45
- reeducation, 117, 214, 219; of Japanese soldiers, 86, 157, 173; of KMT prisoners, 151, 207–210, 216
- Refuting the History of the War, 172
- remilitarization of Japan, 97, 141
- reparation, 11, 223
- Repatriates Management Agency, 118
- revisionism, 149, 165, 225, 242, 252
- Rhee, Synghman, 91, 113–114
- Rising Asia Kannon Temple, 248–249, 322n26, 323nn34–35
- Ritsumeikan University, 200
- Russia, 8, 11, 39, 74. See also USSR
- Rwanda, 14, 255
- “sacred war,” 63
- Saigon, 41. See also France
- Saitama Prefecture, rest home in, 111
- Sakano Junkichi, 198, 311n45
- San Francisco Peace Treaty (1952), 169, 171, 173
- Sanmonji Shōhei, 248
- Sapporo, 86
- Sarawak, 110
- Satō Eisaku, 224
- SCAP (Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers), 12, 36, 68, 74, 81, 83, 125 and JCP, 89–90, 179
- Schmitt, Carl, 236
- Scotland Yard, 43
- SEAC, 60. See also Southeast Asia
- Sebald, William, 121–122
- Sejima Ryūzō, 31, 249
- Sekai (World) magazine, 165, 185, 304n101
- sensō sekinin. See war responsibility
- Serbia, 254
- Shandong Province, 13
- Shangbai Village, 96
- Shanghai High Court, 131
- Shanghai Jiaotong University, 133, 258, 298n46
- Shanghai Military Tribunal, 129, 131
- Shanghai Trials, 29–30, 45, 104, 129, 131, 158
- Shanxi, Hebei and Chahar Provinces Military Zone Detention Center, 209, 314n16
- Shanxi Province, 132, 144, 152, 153, 161, 194, 206. See also Taiyuan; Yan Xishan
- Shen, Yorkson (Shen Jinding), 103
- Shenbao newspaper, 122, 130
- Shen Junru, 139–141, 148
- Shenyang (Mukden), 29, 132, 164, 188, 195, 209; trials, 31, 128, 152–155, 157–158, 205–206, 240; WWII Allied Prisoners Camp Site Museum, 298
- Shenzhen, 217
- Shen Zui, 214
- Shibuya Incident, 100–103, 231. See also February 28 Incident; Jeju Incident
- Shidehara Kijūrō, 71–74, 85, 285n47
- Shiga Yoshio, 80–84, 86, 91. See also Fuchū Prison
- Shigemitsu Mamoru, 67, 74, 194
- Shiina Etsusaburō, 224
- Shi Liang, 145–147, 154, 205, 231
- Shimazu Tadatsugu, 173, 175
- Shimoda Takezsō, 75
- Shimomura Kainan (Hiroshi), 42–43
- Shimomura Sadamu, 67
- Shimota Jirō, 119–120, 130
- Shimoyama Incident, 88
- Shinobazu Pond, 10–11
- Shinto shrines, 243
- Shirakawa Training Grounds, 109–110
- Shizuoka Prefecture, 248
- Showa Emperor. See Hirohito
- Showa Research Association, 91
- Siberia, 137
- Sihang Warehouse Battle, Shanghai, 49–50, 247
- Singapore, 16, 61, 112, 122, 171
- Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95, 9–10, 12. See also anchors; Dingyuan warship; Weihaiwei; Zhenyuan warship
- Snyder, Timothy, 55
- socialism, 145–149, 178, 228, 233–234, 236
- socialist law, 137, 139–140, 145, 205, 228, 230
- Socialist Party, Japanese, 173, 181–182, 196, 237
- Sone Eki, 75
- Soochow, 119; School of Comparative Law, 27–28; University (Dongwu University), 28, 43–44, 231, 276n10. See also Suzhou
- Sōren (General Federation of Resident Koreans in Japan), 84–85
- Sorge, Richard, 89–90, 180
- South Korea, 38–39, 56, 114; anti-communism, 91, 106, 113; democratization, 21, 113–114; and Japan, 85, 97, 224, 252–253
- Soviet Union. See USSR
- Speer, Albert, 160
- Stalin, Joseph, 86, 123–124, 136, 180, 235; mistakes of, 149–150
- Stalinism, 19, 88
- Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, 231, 236
- starvation, 43, 79, 94, 131, 199, 215. See also famine
- State Council, 229, 235
- state violence, 19, 201
- Steinmeier, Frank-Walter, 255
- Sugamo Prison, 137, 171, 189–190, 193, 310n25; executions at, 120–121, 124, 250; protection of site, 250
- Suifenhe, 141, 240
- Sumioka Giichi, 161–163
- Sumita Raishirō, 161
- Sumption, Jonathan, 20
- Sunama Ichirō, 85, 89
- Sun Li-jen, 108, 201, 312n57
- Sun Pinghua, 174
- Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. See SCAP
- Suzhou, 119. See also Soochow
- Suzuki Hiraku, 157, 165–166, 207, 305n106
- Suzuki Mosaburō, 182
- Switzerland, 175
- Tachiki Hiroshi, 237
- Taipei, 13, 57, 106, 108, 244, 245; Prison, 107
- Taiwan Strait, 21
- Taiyuan, 118, 143–144, 298, 300; prison camps, 132–133, 162, 164, 194, 241; trials, 149, 152–153, 161–162, 206; War Criminals Management Center, 167, 195. See also Shanxi Province; Yan Xishan
- Takasaki Tatsunosuke, 189
- Takayanagi Kenzō, 75
- Takazawa Torao, 237
- Takeiri Yoshikatsu, 223
- Takenaka Katsuo, 310n27
- Takushoku University, 250
- Tamsui. See Danshui
- Tamura Hiroshi, 15
- Tanabe Toshio, 165–166
- Tanaka Hiromi, 68
- Tanaka Hisakazu, 93–94
- Tanaka Kakuei, 224–225
- Tanaka Masaaki, 172, 249
- Tanaka Toshio, 181–183, 196
- Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, 56
- Tan Zhengwen, 149, 299n20
- TASS, 136
- Tateishi, Kay, 80
- technicians, 145, 148; Japanese, 137, 175, 177, 185
- TEPCO, 251
- terrorism, 19, 219–220, 239
- Thatcher, Margaret, 19
- The Three Alls, 166
- Tiananmen Square, 226, 236
- Tianjin, 158, 177, 185
- Tiantaigang, 131
- Tilanqiao Prison (Basket Bridge Prison), 120
- Tingle, G. R., 108
- Tito, Josip, 195
- Tōgō Minoru, 66
- Tōgō Shigenori, 75
- Tōjō Hideki, 47, 59, 121, 124
- Tokuda Kyūichi, 79–85, 91, 178–180, 188. See also Fuchū Prison
- Tokutomi Sohō, 35–36, 54, 249, 278n32
- Tokutomi Tasaburō, 249
- Tokyo Imperial University, 81, 105
- Tominaga Juntarō, 144
- Toyoda Soemu, 15, 67
- Toyota Kumao, 169–170, 197–198, 284n32, 305n1
- Trainin, Aron, 123
- traitors, 16, 43, 115, 139, 201, 208; Japanese, 90; Korean, 84, 288n43; Manchukuo, 99, 152
- translators, 1, 21, 129, 146, 180, 188, 302n58. See also interpreters
- Truman, Harry S., 64, 123
- Trump, Donald, 255
- Truth and Reconciliation Committee, 245
- Tsai Ing-wen, 245
- Tsuda Moriya, 162
- Tsugita Daizaburō, 86
- Tsuji Masanobu, 122–123, 167, 191, 194–195
- Tsukamoto Saburō, 228
- Tsunoda Jun, 198
- tunnel warfare, 2–3, 47, 157–159, 165, 242
- Tutsis and Hutus, 255
- Uchiyama Kanzō, 175–176
- Ueda Kōichirō, 250
- Ueno Park, 10–11
- Uesaka Masaru, 156–159, 206, 303nn74–76
- UK. See United Kingdom
- ultranationalism, 122, 172
- Umezu Yoshijirō, 67
- undeclared war, 6, 86
- United Kingdom (UK), 27, 82, 109, 214–215, 230, 283n11; colonial interests, 30–31, 34, 109; legal system, 20, 43–44, 124; vs. Germany, 200; national archives, 293n62, 311n39; national histories, 33; political debates, 200; Sino-Japanese relations, 189, 194–196; Southeast Asia, 49, 60–61; Taiwan, 104, 108; trials, 16, 31–32, 40–41, 112, 129; troops in Japan, 58. See also Great Britain
- United Nations (UN), 14, 28, 239, 245, 257; Korea, 113, 116; Taiwan, 216, 218, 221–222, 226, 245; War Crimes Commission. See UNWCC
- University of Oxford, 43
- Uno Shintarō, 157
- UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission), 28, 42–43, 64–65, 124
- USS Missouri, 61, 74
- USSR, 27, 39, 89, 136, 173, 189, 225–226; advisers to China, 45, 137, 145; competition with US, 25, 38, 58, 63, 74, 90, 116; detention of POWs, 89, 159, 173–175, 194, 249; historical nihilism, 235; JCP, 88–89, 91, 97, 180, 188; Khrushchev’s speech, 149–150; law, 139–140, 145–147, 149, 154; Lin Biao Incident, 221; Manchuria, 98, 137, 183; Mao Zedong’s visit, 136–137; non-public investigations, 161; relations with Japan, 60, 171, 174–175, 183, 191, 224; repatriation of prisoners, 153, 175–177, 209, 241; transfer of POWs to China, 137–138, 141, 155, 183; trials, 16, 30–32, 122–124, 137, 151–152, 166, 249. See also Moscow; Russia
- US Strategic Bombing Survey, 219, 316n69
- Wada Haruki, 116
- Wainwright, Jonathan, 29, 109
- Wang Hongwen, 229
- Wang Huai’an, 147
- Wang Jiaxiang, 188
- Wang Jingwei, 46, 273n23
- Wang Lin, 96–97, 99
- Wang Minqiu, 157–158
- Wang Ruqi, 148–149, 154, 301n41
- Wang Shijie, 126
- Wang Shilin, 142–144, 156, 167, 241–242
- Wang Xiaoxian, 307n32
- Wang Yaowu, 152, 302n58
- Wang Yi, 257
- Wang Zaoshi, 204–205
- Wang Zhendong, 195
- Wanping, 6
- Ward Road Jail, 29, 119–120, 295n1
- War Investigation Council (Sensō chōsakai), 71, 74, 77
- war of aggression, 34, 36, 65, 167, 195, 200, 238
- war responsibility (sensō sekinin), 37, 63, 126, 151, 169, 233; deliberating, 34, 48, 66–68, 71–76, 85, 87, 92–93, 165–166
- Waseda University, 198
- Washington, DC, 69, 176, 259
- Washington Post, 219
- Webb, William, 31, 44
- Weihaiwei, 10, 13. See also anchors; Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95
- Wei Jingsheng, 226
- West, Rebecca, 124
- West Australian newspaper, 120
- Western Europe, 22, 38–39, 99
- West Germany, 200–201
- “white terror,” 201, 203, 245. See also Taiwan; February 28 Incident
- Whitney, Courtney, 89
- Williams, A. T., 258
- Willoughby, Charles, 82, 89–90
- Winfield, Percy Henry, 43
- Woo Yian, 50–51, 281n43
- World Conference against Hydrogen and Atomic Bombs, 189
- world order, 37, 39, 60, 148; new, 34, 87, 101, 135
- World Peace Conference (1954), 189
- World War I, 15, 82
- Wright, Robert (Lord Wright of Durley), 43, 64
- Wuhan, 11, 209
- Wu Jinan, 224
- Wu Xuewen, 307n32
- Yabe Teiji, 91
- Yalu River, 60
- Yamada Fūtarō, 47
- Yamaguchi Kikuichirō, 182
- Yamaguchi Mitsufumi, 98–99
- Yamashita Tomoyuki, 61, 63, 76, 286n65
- Yang Guangyu, 209
- Yang Xianzhi, 206
- Yang Zhaolong, 27, 45, 126, 204, 205
- Yang Zhenya, 307n32
- Yan Haijian, 134, 297n22
- Yanji Detention Center, 98
- Yan Xishan, 161, 182–183. See also Shanxi Province; Taiyuan
- Yao Wenyuan, 229
- Yasuda Muneharu, 112
- Yasukuni Shrine, 35, 94, 170–171, 238
- Yasuo Masatsuna, 162
- Ye Jianying, 228
- Yenan, 81, 86, 147, 178, 188
- Yokohama, 86, 248, 250, 305n1
- Yokosuka, 10
- Yokota Kisaburō, 15
- Yomiuri Newspaper, 10, 73, 83, 124
- Yonai Mitsumasa, 67
- Yonemura Haruki, 119–120, 130
- Yoshida Shigeru, 74–75, 93, 172, 174
- Yoshimatsu Masakatsu, 172
- Yoshimi Yoshiaki, 165
- Yuan Guang, 206
- Yuan Weishi, 256
- Yudin, P. F., 150
- Yugoslavia, 14, 195, 226
- Yuhuatai execution site, 128
- Zainichi, 83, 85
- Zainihon chōsenjin renmei (Chōren), 83–84
- Zainihon chōsenjin sōren gōkai (Sōren), 84–85
- Zainihon daikanminkoku kyoryū mindan (Community of Resident South Koreans in Japan), 85
- Zhang Chunqiao, 229, 232
- Zhang Dingcheng, 153–154
- Zhangjiakou, 209
- Zhang Jinghui, 241
- Zhang Tieshi, 218
- Zhang Xiangqian, 206–207
- Zhang Xiruo, 148, 190, 194, 196
- Zhang Zhirang, 301n46
- Zhao Anbo, 180, 188, 307n32
- Zhao Peixian, 163
- Zhao Yuying, 240, 321n3. See also Fushun: Prison
- Zhejiang Province, 50, 96, 158
- Zheng Fulai, 6–8, 272n2
- Zheng Luda, 279n16
- Zhenyuan warship, 8–10, 12. See also anchors; Dingyuan warship; Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95
- Zhong Hanbo, 11
- Zhong Hanhua, 301n46
- Zhonghua ribao newspaper, 130
- Zhou Enlai, 12, 56, 143, 187, 221–226; Japanese politicians, 181, 183–185, 191–195, 223–224, 310n22, 310n27; war criminals, 143, 149–150, 183–184, 192–193, 214–217
- Zhou Gengsheng, 301n46
- Zhou Yangqing, 279n16
- Zhu De, 188, 225
- Zhu Yaotang, 206–207