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| About the Contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| Sect. 1 | The Japanese and Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perceptions | |
| 1 | Unseen Paradise: The Image of Holland in the Writings of Ando Shoeki | 1 |
| 2 | Debates on Naichi Zakkyo in Japan (1879-99): The Influence of Spencerian Social Evolutionism on the Japanese Perception of the West | 7 |
| 3 | Two Japanese on Modernity: Fukuzawa Yukichi and Japanese Images of Europe and the World as Interpreted by Maruyama Masao | 23 |
| 4 | The Break with Europe: Japanese Views of the Old World after the First World War | 39 |
| 5 | Perceptions of 'Europe' in Japanese Historiography, 1945-65 | 58 |
| 6 | Japanese Employers' Perceptions of European Labour Relations | 77 |
| 7 | Japanese Interest in the Ottoman Empire | 95 |
| Sect. 2 | Japan and Eastern Europe | |
| 8 | Major Fukushima Yasumasa and His Influence on the Japanese Perception of Poland at the Turn of the Century | 125 |
| 9 | Japan's Enlightened War: Military Conduct and Attitudes to the Enemy during the Russo-Japanese War | 134 |
| 10 | Japan and Russia: Mutual Images, 1904-39 | 152 |
| 11 | 'How Could You Fear or Respect Such an Enemy?': The End of World War II on Sakhalin | 172 |
| Sect. 3 | Japan, Europe and Cold War Issues | |
| 12 | Japan and Europe in the Occupation Period, 1945-52 | 193 |
| 13 | Europe in Japan's Foreign Policy | 208 |
| 14 | Opportunities and Constraints in Euro-Japanese Relations: A Multidimensional Approach | 236 |
| 15 | The Structure of Soviet-Japanese Relations in the Cold War: Normalization in the Mid-1950s | 260 |
| Index | 275 |
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