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

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34541-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

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 Takuro, Kato Yoko, Kawakita Atsuko, Gerhard Krebs, Kudo Akira, Heinrich Menkhaus, Danny Orbach, Peter Pantzer, Sven Saaler, Sato Takumi, Volker Stanzel, Suzuki Naoko, Tajima Nobuo, Tano Daisuke, and Rolf-Harald Wippich.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saaler, Sven

Weitere Mitwirkende

Saaler, Sven

Akira, Kudo

Nobuo, Tajima

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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? The Image of “Germany” During the Prusso-Japanese Treaty Negotiations in 1860–1861 - Fukuoka Mariko
2. Japanese-German Mutual Perceptions in the 1860s and 1870s: The Eulenburg and Bunkyu Missions - Suzuki Naoko
3. The Image of Prussia in Japan during the Boshin War (1868–1869) - Hakoishi Hiroshi

Part II: Perceptions of a “Golden Age” of Japanese-German Relations
4. Katsura Taro’s Experiences in Germany and Kido Takayoshi’s Ideas on a Constitution - Kato Yoko
5. 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 Menkhaus
7. Japan in Early Twentieth-century European Picture Postcards - Peter Pantzer

Part III: Drifting Apart: Tensions and War
8. The 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 Other” 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. The Consumption of Nazi Images in Post-war Japanese Popular Culture -Sato Takumi
17 German and European Academic Images of Japan: The “Group Model” and the “Cultural Importer Model” from the 1970s to the 1990s - Iwasa Takuro

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.

Kudo 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 Seijo 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.