The Japanese and Europe

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Not another 'misunderstandings and misconceptions' volume, but a wide-ranging review of intellectual traditions, mutual and alternative images, and case studies of people and events that mirror the focus of this book.
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The Japanese and Europe: Images and Perceptions

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Overview

Not another 'misunderstandings and misconceptions' volume, but a wide-ranging review of intellectual traditions, mutual and alternative images, and case studies of people and events that mirror the focus of this book.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781873410868
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
  • Publication date: 7/1/2000
  • Pages: 283
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

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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