Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures, Tables and Graphs

Notes to Readers

List of Contributors

Introduction: Japanese-German Mutual Images from the 1860s to the Present

Part 1 Early Encounters

Chapter 1 Prussia or North Germany? The Image of “Germany” during the Prusso-Japanese Treaty Negotiations in 1860–1861

Chapter 2 Japanese-German Mutual Perceptions in the 1860s and 1870s: The Eulenburg and Bunkyū Missions

Chapter 3 The Image of Prussia in Japan during the Boshin War (1868–1869)

Part 2 Perceptions of a “Golden Age” of Japanese-German Relations

Chapter 4 Katsura Tarō’s Experiences in Germany and Kido Takayoshi’s Ideas on a Constitution

Chapter 5 The Image of Japan and the Japanese in the German Satirical Journals Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus, 1853–1914

Chapter 6 Images of Japan Held by German Legal Experts in the Meiji Period

Chapter 7 Japan in Early Twentieth-century European Picture Postcards

Part 3 Drifting Apart: Tensions and War

Chapter 8 The Image of Germany in Japanese Politics and Society, 1890–1914

Chapter 9 Rathenau and Ludendorff: Two Japanese Images of Germany in World War I

Chapter 10 Images of Japan and East Asia in German Politics in the Early Nazi Era

Part 4 Idealization of “The Other” in the Age of Totalitarianism

Chapter 11 “Strength Through Joy” in Japan: Mutual Perceptions of Leisure Movements in Germany and Japan, 1935–1942

Chapter 12 Images of German-Japanese Similarities and Affinities in National-Socialist Germany (1933–1945)

Chapter 13 German Perspectives on Japanese Heroism during the Nazi Era

Chapter 14 Colonialism through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the SS and the German Conservative Resistance

Part 5 Post-war Images

Chapter 15 Images of Japan in Post-war German Media: How the “Past” is Used to Reinforce Images of Self and Other

Chapter 16 The Consumption of Nazi Images in Post-war Japanese Popular Culture

Chapter 17 German and European Academic Images of Japan: The “Group Model” and the “Cultural Importer Model” from the 1970s to the 1990s

Index