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Note on Conventions Throughout the text, Japanese personal names are given in the common Japanese manner, with the surname followed by the given name. The main exception to this rule is made in the case of Japanese writers whose works are well known to Western readers. The names of cabinets (for example, the Kuroda cabinet, second Ōhira cabinet, etc.) follow the system employed on the website of the Prime Minister and His Cabinet (http://www.kantei .go.jp/jp/rekidai/index.html). Macron marks are used except in cases where the word in question is widely familiar to Western readers, such as Tokyo and Osaka instead of Tōkyō and Ōsaka. xi ...

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