Florentino Rodao is a Professor of Modern History at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has two Ph. D’s (Complutense and the University of Tokyo) and has also taught in the universities of Ateneo de Manila, Keiō, Wisconsin-Madison, Puerto Rico and Tokyo University of Foreign Affairs. As visiting scholar and such, he has been at Australian National, Tokyo at Komaba, Harvard, South Pacific at Laucala, California at Berkeley and Hawai’I at Mānoa. Rodao has worked extensively on Spanish interactions with East Asia and the Pacific. Besides edited books and articles, he authored Españoles en Siam, 1540-1939. Una contribución al estudio de la presencia hispana en Asia Oriental (1997), and has published extensively on the Philippines, such as Franquistas sin Franco. Una historia alternativa de la Guerra Civil Española desde Filipinas (2012). He has also published for wider audiences, such as La Soledad del País Vulnerable. Japón since 1945(2019).

• Chapter1. Introduction: Distance and Difference.- Chapter 2. Anticipating a New Order.- Chapter 3. The Fighter and the Assistant.- Chapter 4. Confusion in Collaboration.- Chapter 5. The Impossible Negotiations. Chapter 6. Unexpected Expectations.- Chapter 7. Conclusion Irremissible Orientalism.