Japan and Russia

Yulia Mikhailova is Professor in the Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University, and a specialist in modern Japanese history and Russo-Japanese relations. She is the author of Motoori Norinaga: His Work and Life (1988) and Social and Political Perspectives in Japan from the 1860s to the 1880s (1991). She has published numerous articles in English, Russian, Hebrew and Japanese about the role of visual media in shaping images, and on other aspects of relations between Japan and Russia.M.William Steele is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Japanese History at the International Christian University, Tokyo. He is a specialist on Japanese social and political history in the late-nineteenth century. His Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History (2003), includes several chapters that make use of broadsides, satirical cartoons and woodblock prints in understanding the social history of late-nineteenth century Japan.

• Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of illustrations; Note on conventions; Introduction; 1 Changing Japanese-Russian images in the Edo period; 2 Japonisme in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 3 Japan's 'Fifteen Minutes of Glory': Managing world opinion during the war with Russia, 1904-1905; 4 Japan's place in Russian and Soviet national identity: From Port Arthur to Khalkin-gol; 5 Memory and identity: Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union; 6 Constructing the screen image of an ideal partner; 7 Disintegration of the Soviet Union as seen in Japanese Political cartoons; 8 Images in tinted mirrors: Japanese-Russian perceptions in provincial Japan; 9 Images at an impasse: Anime and manga in contemporary Russia; 10 Strategies of representation: Japanese politicians on Russian internet and television; Bibliography; Index