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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Japanese-German Mutual Images from the 1860s to the Present / Sven Saaler -- Prussia or North Germany? The Image of “Germany” during the Prusso-Japanese Treaty Negotiations in 1860–1861 / Mariko Fukuoka -- Japanese-German Mutual Perceptions in the 1860s and 1870s: The Eulenburg and Bunkyū Missions / Naoko Suzuki -- The Image of Prussia in Japan during the Boshin War (1868–1869) / Hiroshi Hakoishi -- Katsura Tarō’s Experiences in Germany and Kido Takayoshi’s Ideas on a Constitution / Yōko Katō -- The Image of Japan and the Japanese in the German Satirical Journals Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus, 1853–1914 / Rolf-Harald Wippich -- Images of Japan Held by German Legal Experts in the Meiji Period / Heinrich Menkhaus -- Japan in Early Twentieth-century European Picture Postcards / Peter Pantzer -- The Image of Germany in Japanese Politics and Society, 1890–1914 / Sven Saaler -- Rathenau and Ludendorff: Two Japanese Images of Germany in World War i / Akira Kudō -- Images of Japan and East Asia in German Politics in the Early Nazi Era / Nobuo Tajima -- “Strength Through Joy” in Japan: Mutual Perceptions of Leisure Movements in Germany and Japan, 1935–1942 / Daisuke Tano -- Images of German-Japanese Similarities and Affinities in National-Socialist Germany (1933–1945) / Hans-Joachim Bieber -- German Perspectives on Japanese Heroism during the Nazi Era / Gerhard Krebs -- Colonialism through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the ss and the German Conservative Resistance / Danny Orbach -- Images of Japan in Post-war German Media: How the “Past” is Used to Reinforce Images of Self and Other / Atsuko Kawakita -- The Consumption of Nazi Images in Post-war Japanese Popular Culture / Takumi Satō -- German and European Academic Images of Japan: The “Group Model” and the “Cultural Importer Model” from the 1970s to the 1990s / Takurō Iwasa -- Index.