ISBN:
1403975329
,
9781403975324
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (262 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941
DDC:
303.482730520904
Keywords:
World War, 1939-1945 Causes
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United States Foreign relations 20th century
;
United States Relations
;
Japan Foreign public opinion, American
;
Japan Relations
;
Japan Foreign relations 1912-1945
;
United States Foreign public opinion, Japanese
Abstract:
This study explores U.S-Japanese relations in the interwar period to find that the seeds of the Pacific War were sown in the failure of cultural diplomacy and the growth of mutually antagonistic images. While most Americans came to see Japan's modernity as a façade, the Japanese began to group Americans with the warlike European powers
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Chinese and Japanese Names; Introduction: The Seeds of War; 1 American Perceptions of Japan: Liberal Modernity or Feudal Militarism; 2 Japanese Response to Orientalism; 3 War Talk and John Dewey: Tensions concerning China; 4 The Washington Conference, the Kanto Earthquake and Japanese Public Opinion: Victories for Liberals?; 5 Immigration Exclusion; 6 The Liberal Challenge: Responses to Immigration Exclusion; 7 New Emperor, New Tensions in Manchuria; 8 "Oriental" Duplicity or Progress and Order: The Manchurian Incident
Description / Table of Contents:
9 "America Is Very Difficult to Get Along with": Anti-Americanism, Japanese Militarism, and Spying, 1934-193710 "A Certain Presentiment of Fatal Danger": The Sino-Japanese War and U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1937-1939; 11 The March to War; Epilogue: Impact on the Postwar World; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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