American Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan
From Perry to Obama- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2014
Summary
American Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan: From Perry to Obama is an historical survey of how Americans have viewed Japan during the past 160 years. It encompasses the diplomatic, political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the relationship, with an emphasis on changing American images, myths, and stereotypes of Japan and the Japanese. It begins with the American “opening” of Japan in the 1850s and 1860s. Subsequent chapters explore American attitudes toward Japan during the Gilded Age, the early 1900s, the 1920s, the 1930s, and the Pacific War. The second part of the book, organized round the theme of the postwar Japanese-American partnership, covers the Occupation, the 1960s, the troubled 1970s and1980s, and the post-Cold War decades down to the Obama presidency. The conclusion offers some predictions about how Americans are likely to view Japan in the future.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2014
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-8912-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-8913-9
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 175
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
- 1 Opening a Closed Country, 1853–1868 No access
- 2 Admiring the New and Old Japan, 1868–1905 No access
- 3 Confronting Imperial Japan, 1905–1920 No access
- 4 Embracing Liberal Japan, 1921–1931 No access
- 5 Colliding with Militarist Japan, 1931–1941 No access
- 6 Fighting a Detested Foe, 1941–1945 No access
- 7 Remaking Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 No access
- 8 Allying with Pacifist Japan, 1952–1971 No access
- 9 Coping with “Japan Incorporated,” 1971–1991 No access
- 10 Reinventing the U.S.–Japan Alliance, 1991–2006 No access
- 11 Assessing a Changing Japan, 2007–2013 No access
- Conclusion No access Pages 159 - 164
- Bibliography No access Pages 165 - 170
- Index No access Pages 171 - 174
- About the Author No access Pages 175 - 175





