The Japanese and Europe: Images and Perceptions

by Edstrom,Bert

• ISBN13: 9781873410868
• ISBN10: 1873410867
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-25
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
SECTION 1: The Japanese and Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perceptions
Unseen Paradise: The Image of Holland in the Writings of Ando Shoeki	1	(6)
Karine Marandjian
Debates on Naichi Zakkyo in Japan (1879-99): The Influence of Spencerian Social Evolutionism on the Japanese Perception of the West	7	(16)
Noriko Berlinguez-Kono
Two Japanese on Modernity: Fukuzawa Yukichi and Japanese Images of Europe and the World as Interpreted by Maruyama Masao	23	(16)
Joel Joos
The Break with Europe: Japanese Views of the Old World after the First World War	39	(19)
Dick Stegewerns
Perceptions of `Europe' in Japanese Historiography, 1945-65	58	(19)
Sebastian Conrad
Japanese Employers' Perceptions of European Labour Relations	77	(18)
John Crump
Japanese Interest in the Ottoman Empire	95	(30)
Selcuk Esenbel
SECTION 2: Japan and Eastern Europe
Major Fukushima Yasumasa and His Influence on the Japanese Perception of Poland at the Turn of the Century	125	(9)
Ewa Palasz-Rutkowska
Japan's Enlightened War: Military Conduct and Attitudes to the Enemy during the Russo-Japanese War	134	(18)
Rotem Kowner
Japan and Russia: Mutual Images, 1904-39	152	(20)
Yulia Mikhailova
`How Could You Fear or Respect Such an Enemy?': The End of World War II on Sakhalin	172	(21)
Mariya Sevela
SECTION 3: Japan, Europe and Cold War Issues
Japan and Europe in the Occupation Period, 1945-52	193	(15)
Peter Lowe
Europe in Japan's Foreign Policy	208	(28)
Kazuki Iwanaga
Opportunities and Constraints in Euro-Japanese Relations: A Multidimensional Approach	236	(24)
Glenn D. Hook
The Structure of Soviet-Japanese Relations in the Cold War: Normalization in the Mid-1950s	260	(15)
Tanaka Takahiko
Index	275