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

Sven Saaler, Ph.D., Bonn University, is Professor of Modern Japanese History at Sophia University in Tokyo. He has written intensively on the history of regionalism in East Asia, on history controversies in Japan and on Japanese-German relations.Kudō Akira is Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo. A graduate from the Graduate School of Economics of The University of Tokyo, he has intensively published on Japanese-German business and economic relations.Tajima Nobuo, Ph.D., Sapporo University, is professor at Seijō University in Tokyo. He has published monographs and articles on the Far Eastern policies of Germany during the Nazi era and Japanese-German relations in general.

‘The very instructive volume can be recommended to everyone interested in Japan and its relation with Germany.’ Christian W. Spang, Daitō Bunka University, Tokyo, Contemporary Japan, DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1468641

• List of illustrationsPreface - Volker StanzelAcknowledgmentsNotes to ReadersIntroduction: Japanese-German Mutual Images from the 1860s to the Present - Sven SaalerPart I: Early Encounters1. Prussia or North Germany? The Image of “Germany” During the Prusso-Japanese Treaty Negotiations in 1860–1861 - Fukuoka Mariko2. Japanese-German Mutual Perceptions in the 1860s and 1870s: The Eulenburg and Bunkyū Missions - Suzuki Naoko3. The Image of Prussia in Japan during the Boshin War (1868–1869) - Hakoishi HiroshiPart II: Perceptions of a “Golden Age” of Japanese-German Relations4. Katsura Tarō’s Experiences in Germany and Kido Takayoshi’s Ideas on a Constitution - Katō Yōko5. The 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 Menkhaus7. Japan in Early Twentieth-century European Picture Postcards - Peter PantzerPart III: Drifting Apart: Tensions and War8. The Image of Germany in Japanese Politics and Society, 1890–1914 - Sven Saaler9. Rathenau and Ludendorff: Two Japanese Images of Germany in World War I - Kudō Akira10. Images of Japan and East Asia in German Politics in the Early Nazi Era - Tajima NobuoPart IV: Idealization of “The Other” in the Age of Totalitarianism11. “Strength Through Joy” in Japan: Mutual Perceptions of Leisure Movements in Germany and Japan, 1935–1942 - Tano Daisuke12. Images of German-Japanese Similarities and Affinities in National-Socialist Germany (1933–1945) - Hans-Joachim Bieber13. German Perspectives on Japanese Heroism During the Nazi Era - Gerhard Krebs14. Colonialism Through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the SS and the German Conservative Resistance - Danny OrbachPart V: Post-war Images15. Images of Japan in Post-war German Media: How the “Past” is Used to Reinforce Images of Self and Other - Kawakita Atsuko16. The Consumption of Nazi Images in Post-war Japanese Popular Culture -Satō Takumi17 German and European Academic Images of Japan: The “Group Model” and the “Cultural Importer Model” from the 1970s to the 1990s - Iwasa TakurōContributorsIndex