Peattie, Mark 226, 234, 251, 253
peerage 397
Pekkanen, Robert 295
Pempel, T. J. 286, 341
pension system 308, 318
Perez, Louis 148
periodization 6, 13–14, 30, 32, 34, 38,
47–8, 69, 372
peripheries 39, 48, 61–2, 74, 90–1, 114,
143, 145, 184, 201, 229, 234, 235, 321,
424–38
Perry, Matthew 72, 76, 80, 86, 144, 208
pesticides 325, 485, 486, 487
Pflugfelder, Gregory 143, 146, 147, 374
Pharr, Susan 271, 285, 287, 380, 396
Philippines 402, 414, 535
Pillow Book of Sei Sho
¯
nagon 36, 352
pilots 251, 252
Pincus, Leslie 244, 247
pirates see wako
¯
Pittau, Joseph 149
planning, economic 229, 302, 447
Platt, Brian 174
Plaza Accord 305, 307, 311, 416
Pleistocene period 14–15, 16, 18
pluralism 284
Poe, Edgar Allan 199
poetry 53, 111, 118, 119, 122, 123, 131,
466
Poke
´
mon 460, 470
police 229, 274
pollution 316, 321, 322, 329n4, 446, 511
popular culture 101–2, 120, 128, 189, 255,
267, 416, 417, 418–20, 460–73
definition of 460–3
population 71, 81n5, 87, 94, 95–6, 231,
477, 478, 479, 486
Port Arthur, Battle of 214
Portsmouth, Treaty of 214
Portugal 58, 70, 87, 121, 208, 468
post office 447
postcolonialism 149, 215
postmodernism 3, 225, 294, 461
poststr ucturalism 5
Potsdam Declaration 255, 413
pottery 17, 18, 19, 53, 54, 62, 120, 127,
192
poverty 507
Pratt, Edward 88, 90, 92, 177
prime ministers 157, 158, 159
primogeniture 360, 495
printing 120–2
priority production plan 302
private sphere 176
Privy Council 159, 160
production control strikes 272, 499
productivity 498, 500, 504
proletarian literature 198, 270
proletarian political parties 246
propaganda 190, 213
property rights 356–7, 361, 373, 379
prostitution 271, 362, 374, 376, 379, 380
protectionism 505–6
protest, popular 72, 73, 74, 97, 145, 147,
160, 162–3, 164, 282, 326, 435, 450–1,
471, 482, 484, 485, 497, 499, 504, 511
protoindustrialization 90–1, 92, 177, 181
Proust, Marcel 198
Prussia 532
public health 317, 515
public housing 321
Public Order and Police Law 496
public sphere 102
‘‘public works state’’ 453, 455
publishing 119–20, 122, 129–32, 145, 362,
464
Pulitzer Prize 4, 212
Pure Land Sutra 57
Qing dynasty 108, 127, 129, 234, 533, 536
quality control circles 501
Quigley, Harold 292
race 394, 409, 412, 413, 426
racial hygiene 378
racism 213, 248
radar 251
radio 162, 270, 321–2, 328, 413, 469
railroads 180, 182, 192, 227, 233, 253, 328,
397, 502
rakugo 467, 468
Ramseyer, Mark 159, 160–1, 284, 292–3
rangaku (Dutch learning) 108–9, 129, 364
rape 359
Rape of Nanking see Nanjing massacre
rational choice theory 3, 159, 281, 284,
285–6, 289–90, 291–3, 294–5, 298
rationalization, industrial 166, 498, 500,
501, 505
Ravina, Mark 73, 74, 93–4, 432
raw materials 248
Reagan, Ronald 519
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