Keene, Donald: Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid–Nineteenth Century ref1, ref2
Keisaburo, Shimamoto ref1
kempei (military policeman) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Kennedy, John F. ref1
Kennedy, Robert F. ref1
Kenzan, Ogata ref1, ref2n
Kerouac, Jack ref1; On the Road ref1, ref2
Koestler, Arthur: ‘The Lotus and the Robot’ ref1, ref2
kokyu (musical instrument) ref1, ref2, ref3
Korea ref1, ref2
Krisher, Bernard ref1n
Kubla Khan ref1, ref2
Kurosawa, Akira: Ame agaru [After the Rain] ref1; Rashomon ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; Shūbun [Scandal] ref1, ref2, ref3; Subarashiki Nichiyōbi [One Wonderful Sunday] ref1, ref2
Kyoichi, Sawada ref1
La Boheme: ‘Si, Mi Chiamano Mimi’ [‘Yes, They Call Me Mimi’] ref1, ref2
La Grande Bellezza [The Great Beauty] (film) ref1, ref2, ref3
Lara, Agustín: ‘Sombra De Mis Sombras’ [‘Echoes of My Shadows’] ref1, ref2
Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover ref1
le Carré, John ref1, ref2
Leach, Bernard: Kenzan and His Tradition ref1n, ref2
Li Yu: ‘A Meeting’ ref1
Madama Butterfly (Puccini) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Manchu dynasty ref1
Manchukuo ref1, ref2
Manchuria ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20; Chinese guerillas in ref1, ref2; Harbin and see Harbin; Japan creates, 1932 ref1, ref2, ref3; Japanese settlers flee, 1945 ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; Japanese treatment of Chinese in ref1, ref2; Jews in ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4; kempei in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; KY and ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22 see also Kaji, Yukiko; repatriation of Japanese from ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; Russia and ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Second World War and ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Shangri-La in ref1; Soviet forces move into, 1945 ref1, ref2, ref3
Manila, Philippines ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Mao Tse-Tung ref1, ref2
Marxism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Mason, Richard: The World of Suzie Wong ref1, ref2, ref3
Matsuo, Kazuko ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Matsuri, Phoenix, 2013 (festival) ref1
Michener, James A.: Sayonara: A Japanese-American Love Story ref1, ref2
Mifune, Toshiro ref1
Mishima, Yukio: ‘The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love’, Death in Midsummer and Other Stories ref1, ref2
Misora, Hibari ref1, ref2, ref3; ‘Ringo oiwake’ [‘Apple Folksong’] ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; ‘Shina no yoru’ [‘China Night’] ref1, ref2
Mongolia ref1
Montand, Yves: ‘Barbara’ ref1, ref2
Mozart café, Yokosuka ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22
Muñoz, Oscar Garcia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Murasaki, Lady: Genji monogatari [The Tale of Genji] ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Nagasaki, Japan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Nazis ref1, ref2, ref3
Neruda, Pablo ref1; ‘If You Forget Me’, The Captain’s Verses ref1; ‘Las Muchachas’ [‘Girls’], The Captain’s Verses ref1; ‘Sonnet XVII’ ref1
Newsweek ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4
Niishi, Mieko ref1
Nikkyoso (Japan Teacher’s Union) ref1
Nishida (kamikaze pilot) ref1
Oe, Kenzaburo ref1, ref2
Ogawa, Wakako ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4
Okinawa, Japan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Operation Handclasp (US Navy charitable Operation) ref1, ref2, ref3
Otake, Japan ref1
Outline History of China, An ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
oyabun (gangster boss) ref1
P’u-i, Emperor of Manchuria ref1
Pacific Ocean ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Pacific Stars & Stripes ref1
paulownia (tree) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 1941 ref1
Peeples, Lieutenant Commander Charlie L. (Chaplain) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23
Philippines ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Plante, Katy ref1
Po Leung Kuk ref1
Potter, Kent ref1
Prévert, Jacques ref1, ref2
Rashomon (film) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Reiko (White Rose bar) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Richie, Donald: Japan Journals, 1947–2004 ref1, ref2; The Films of Akira Kurosawa ref1, ref2; The Japanese Film: Art and Industry ref1, ref2, ref3
Rilke, Rainer Maria ref1; Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke ref1, ref2; ‘The Courtesan’ ref1
‘Ringo oiwake’ [‘Apple Folksong’] ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Robinson, Carl ref1
Rogers, Gilbert (father of PBR) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Rogers (née Brinkley), Phyllis (mother of PBR) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Roosevelt, Franklin D. ref1
Rosenthal, Joe ref1
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ref1
Russia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17
Saito, Mokichi ref1
samurai ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
San Diego, U.S. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
San José, Costa Rica ref1, ref2, ref3
Sands of Iwo Jima (film) ref1, ref2, ref3
Sartre, John-Paul ref1, ref2
Satie, Erik ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Schiller, Friedrich: ‘Ode to Joy’ ref1
Schnabel, Artur ref1, ref2
Schubert, Franz ref1, ref2
Sea of Japan ref1
Second World War, 1939–45 ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29
Senryu: Japanese Satirical Verses (trans. R. H. Blyth) ref1, ref2, ref3
Shakespeare, William ref1, ref2
shamisen (musical instrument) ref1
Shangri-La, USS ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41, ref42, ref43, ref44, ref45, ref46, ref47, ref48, ref49, ref50, ref51, ref52; News Horizon (monthly newspaper) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Shangri-La (imaginary utopia) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Shikibu, Izumi ref1
‘Shina no yoru’ [‘China Night’] ref1, ref2
Shinoda, Yusuke ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Shinto ref1, ref2n
Shōnagon, Sei: Makura no sōshi hyoshaku [The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon] ref1, ref2
Shūbun [Scandal] (film) ref1, ref2, ref3
Sinatra, Frank: ‘All My Tomorrows’ ref1, ref2, ref3
Snyder, Gary ref1
South China Sea ref1, ref2
Soviet Union ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Spender, Stephen ref1
Stone, Dana ref1
Strong
, Anna Louise ref1; The Chinese Conquer China ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Subarashiki Nichiyōbi [One Wonderful Sunday] (film) ref1, ref2
Sugihara, Chiune ref1
Sugihara, Yukiko ref1; Visas for Life: Chiune Sugihara ref1, ref2
Sully, François ref1
Suribachi volcano, Japan ref1, ref2
Suzie Wong bar, Hong Kong ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
T’ang Dynasty ref1
Taiwan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Taiwan Strait ref1, ref2, ref3
Tan-Ka people ref1
‘Tango Uno’ (song) ref1, ref2
Tanizaki, Junichirō: ‘Portrait of Shunkin’, Seven Japanese Tales ref1, ref2
tanto shirq (short sword) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Taoism ref1
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich ref1, ref2
Thomas, Dylan ref1, ref2
Thoreau, Henry David: Journal of Henry David Thoreau ref1
Tohoku earthquake, Japan, 2011 ref1, ref2
Tokyo, Japan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12n, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17n, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23n, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28n, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33
Tonnaire, Jacques (a.k.a. Jacques Thunder) ref1
Torment, The (schooner) ref1, ref2
Triads ref1
True Story of Ah-Q, The (Lu Xun) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
‘Un Bel Di’ [‘One Fine Day’] (Madame Butterfly) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
United States: PBR childhood in ref1, ref2, ref3; PBR emigration to ref1, ref2, ref3; PBR questions culture and foreign policy of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
United States, SS ref1
University of Illinois ref1
US Marine Corps ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
US Navy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41; Operation Handclasp (charitable operation) ref1, ref2; PBR and naval superiors see Crockett, Commander Davy and Peeples, Lieutenant Commander Charlie L. (Chaplain); PBR enlists ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; PBR journalistic activities within ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; PBR questions role of ref1, ref2, ref3; PBR suspected of communism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; Shangri-La, USS and see Shangri-La,
USS US State Department ref1
US Supreme Court ref1, ref2
Ut, Nick ref1
Van Thanh Lim ref1
Verlaine, Paul ref1
Veronika, Madame ref1
Vietnam Old Hacks ref1 (internet group) ref1
Vietnam War, 1954–75 ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Wada, Hiroshi ref1, ref2, ref3
waka poetry ref1
Wakare mo tanoshi [Even Parting Is Enjoyable] (film) ref1, ref2
Wayne, John ref1
White Rose bar, Yokosuka ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34
White Russians ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Wilde, Oscar ref1
Wong, Lydia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
wu wei (Taoist thought) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
yakuza ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Yamaguchi, Momoe: ‘Hitonatsu no keiken’ [‘Experiences of Summer Youth’] ref1, ref2, ref3
Yamaguchi, Yoshiko ref1, ref2
Yasuko, Koga ref1
Yokosuka, Japan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41, ref42; Honcho district ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; Memories of a City (photography exhibit), Yokosuka Museum of Art ref1, ref2; Mozart café ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22; White Rose bar ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33
‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’ (Raye) ref1, ref2
YouTube ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
‘Z’, lost city of ref1
Zen ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n, ref5
Zubekō Banchō [Delinquent Girl Boss] (film) ref1, ref2
About the Author
Paul Brinkley-Rogers is a veteran war correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. For many years he worked in Asia as a staff member of Newsweek, covering the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia, the death of Chairman Mao, and Japan’s economic miracle. He also reported from Latin America for the Miami Herald, sharing the Pulitzer Prize with a reporting team in 2001 for coverage of the Elián González custody battle. Now retired, he lives in Arizona.
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