Marshall, Jonathan 248
Marshall Plan 275
martial arts 122, 123, 270, 470
Maruyama Masao 112, 113, 167, 248, 334
Maruyama O
¯
kyo 126
Marxism 2, 73, 79, 94, 95, 140, 177, 193,
194, 195, 196, 197, 198–9, 200, 202,
251, 271, 322, 334, 398, 424, 462,
470, 471, 479, 499, 503, 528, 539,
540, 541
masculinity 374–5
mass culture 461, 464
Mass, Jeffrey 34, 51
mass media 162, 192, 233, 243, 270, 288,
321–2, 399, 464, 469
mass production 202
masturbation 358
Masumi Junnosuke 282, 290
material culture 96, 149
materialism 324
Mathias, Regine 378
Matsudaira Sadanobu 76, 105, 112
Matsui Sumako 472
Matsukata deflation 180
Matsukata Masayoshi 484, 537
Matsumura Goshun 126
Matsuo Taseko 144–5, 146, 373
Matsuoka Yo
¯
suke 209, 249
matsuri (festivals) 463, 465, 471
Matsusaka, Tak 214
Matsushita Keiichi 511–12, 513, 517, 520
Matsuzaki Tetsuhisa 282
McClain, James 74, 78, 147, 150
McCormack, N. 395, 396
McLauchlan, Alastair 396
medicine 176, 363, 376, 378
medieval, concept of 47–8
medieval Japan 33, 38, 42, 47–62, 428–31
Mediterranean Sea 209
Meiji constitution 157, 159, 163, 164, 166,
247, 398, 532, 533
Meiji emperor 140, 149, 197, 372, 530
Meiji Imperial House Law 352, 365n11
Meiji period 139–50, 156–61, 190, 227,
229, 235, 274–7, 433–4, 466, 468,
483–4, 495, 496–7, 530–4, 535–6
political history 156–61
social history 173–6
wars 208
Meiji Restoration 70, 72, 73, 139–50, 156,
157, 172, 177, 207, 265, 276, 372, 373,
390, 393, 397, 398, 433, 472, 482, 512,
513, 528, 529, 530, 532, 538
trans-Restoration analysis 173, 174, 184
Melucci, Alberto 518
memoirs, political 290–1
memory 214–15, 413
‘‘mental attitude’’ novelists 197
merchants 53, 62, 88, 93, 118, 361, 373,
389–90, 392, 393, 397, 429, 432, 463
methodology, political science 289–90,
290–5
middle class 172, 175–6, 179, 190, 191,
192, 231, 268, 321, 323, 326, 380, 397,
398–403, 513
new 398
old 398, 403
Middle East 317, 328, 414
Midway, Battle of 211
midwives 375
migration, internal 95, 315, 320–1, 325,
380
within the Japanese empire 234
Miike strike 316, 322, 502
Miki Kiyoshi 244, 514
militarism 183, 245, 247, 270, 282
military, Japanese 140, 149, 157, 159, 163,
165–6, 167, 183, 243, 249, 250–2,
270, 273, 316, 335, 339, 343, 344–5,
351, 354, 356, 358, 374, 397–8, 469
millet 478
Minamoto Takaakira 36
Minamoto Yoritomo 30, 37, 41, 48, 355,
357
Ming dynasty 59, 61, 127, 129
Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce 479,
483
Ministry of Commerce and Industry 255
Ministry of Construction 448–9, 452, 453
Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry 341
Ministry of Education 174–5, 274, 519–20
Ministry of Finance 302, 447
Ministry of International Trade and
Industry 255, 284, 302, 341
Ministry of Justice 242
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and
Transport 455
minka (people’s songs) 272
Minobe Ryo
¯
kichi 246
Minobe Tatsukichi 166
minorities, ethnic 172, 178, 326–7
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