Mutual perceptions and images in Japanese-German relations, 1860-2010 / / edited by Sven Saaler, Kudo Akira, and Tajima Nobuo.

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Volume 59
• TeilnehmendeR: Saaler, Sven, 1968-; Akira, Kudo,; Nobuo, Tajima,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 59.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (463 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction: Japanese-German Mutual Images from the 1860s to the Present /; Prussia or North Germany? The Image of “Germany” during the Prusso-Japanese Treaty Negotiations in 1860–1861 /; Japanese-German Mutual Perceptions in the 1860s and 1870s: The Eulenburg and Bunkyū Missions /; The Image of Prussia in Japan during the Boshin War (1868–1869) /; Katsura Tarō’s Experiences in Germany and Kido Takayoshi’s Ideas on a Constitution /; The Image of Japan and the Japanese in the German Satirical Journals Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus, 1853–1914 /; Images of Japan Held by German Legal Experts in the Meiji Period /; Japan in Early Twentieth-century European Picture Postcards /; The Image of Germany in Japanese Politics and Society, 1890–1914 /; Rathenau and Ludendorff: Two Japanese Images of Germany in World War i /; Images of Japan and East Asia in German Politics in the Early Nazi Era /; “Strength Through Joy” in Japan: Mutual Perceptions of Leisure Movements in Germany and Japan, 1935–1942 /; Images of German-Japanese Similarities and Affinities in National-Socialist Germany (1933–1945) /; German Perspectives on Japanese Heroism during the Nazi Era /; Colonialism through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the ss and the German Conservative Resistance /; Images of Japan in Post-war German Media: How the “Past” is Used to Reinforce Images of Self and Other /; The Consumption of Nazi Images in Post-war Japanese Popular Culture /; German and European Academic Images of Japan: The “Group Model” and the “Cultural Importer Model” from the 1970s to the 1990s /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004345426
• ISSN: 0925-6512
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sven Saaler, Kudo Akira, and Tajima Nobuo.

Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860–2010 examines the mutual images formed between Japan and Germany from the mid-nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, and the influence of these images on the development of bilateral relations. Unlike earlier research on Japanese-German relations, which focused on the similarity of these countries’ historical trajectories, this publication presents a more nuanced picture. It relativizes perceptions of a special “spiritual relationship” between Japan and Germany as well as their commonalities of “national character” through an exploration of previously untapped historical visual and textual sources. With essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field, this collection is an invaluable contribution to the historiography of modern Japan and Germany, and to the field of international relations. Contributors are: Hans-Joachim Bieber, Fukuoka Mariko, Hakoishi Hiroshi, Iwasa Takurō, Katō Yōko, Kawakita Atsuko, Gerhard Krebs, Kudō Akira, Heinrich Menkhaus, Danny Orbach, Peter Pantzer, Sven Saaler, Satō Takumi, Volker Stanzel, Suzuki Naoko, Tajima Nobuo, Tano Daisuke, and Rolf-Harald Wippich.