Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010

Abstract

List of illustrations Preface - Volker Stanzel Acknowledgments Notes to Readers Introduction: Japanese-German Mutual Images from the 1860s to the Present - Sven Saaler Part I: Early Encounters 1. Prussia or North Germany? Image of During the Prusso-Japanese Treaty Negotiations in 1860-1861 - Fukuoka Mariko 2. Japanese-German Mutual Perceptions in the 1860s and 1870s: Eulenburg and Bunkyu Missions - Suzuki Naoko 3. Image of Prussia in Japan during the Boshin War (1868-1869) - Hakoishi Hiroshi Part II: Perceptions of a Golden of Japanese-German Relations 4. Katsura Taro's Experiences in Germany and Kido Takayoshi's Ideas on a Constitution - Kato Yoko 5. Image of Japan and the Japanese in the German Satirical Journals Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus, 1853-1914 - Rolf-Harald Wippich 6. Images of Japan Held by German Legal Experts in the Meiji Period - Heinrich Menkhaus 7. Japan in Early Twentieth-century European Picture Postcards - Peter Pantzer Part III: Drifting Apart: Tensions and War 8. Image of Germany in Japanese Politics and Society, 1890-1914 - Sven Saaler 9. Rathenau and Ludendorff: Two Japanese Images of Germany in World War I - Kudo Akira 10. Images of Japan and East Asia in German Politics in the Early Nazi Era - Tajima Nobuo Part IV: Idealization of The in the Age of Totalitarianism 11. Strength Through Joy in Japan: Mutual Perceptions of Leisure Movements in Germany and Japan, 1935-1942 - Tano Daisuke 12. Images of German-Japanese Similarities and Affinities in National-Socialist Germany (1933-1945) - Hans-Joachim Bieber 13. German Perspectives on Japanese Heroism During the Nazi Era - Gerhard Krebs 14. Colonialism Through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the SS and the German Conservative Resistance - Danny Orbach Part V: Post-war Images 15. Images of Japan in Post-war German Media: How the Past is Used to Reinforce Images of Self and Other - Kawakita Atsuko 16. Consumption of Nazi Images in Post-war Japanese Popular Culture -Sato Takumi 17 German and European Academic Images of Japan: Group Model and the Cultural Importer Model from the 1970s to the 1990s - Iwasa Takuro Contributors Index