Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgmentss v
3. Note on Japanese names vi
4. Contents vii
5. Foreword ix
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. All the World a Melting Pot? Japan at American Fairs, 1876–1904 24
8. 3. The Sacred Land of Liberty: Images of America in Nineteenth Century Japan 55
9. 4. Japan as a Competitor, 1895–1917 73
10. 5. Images of the United States as a Hypothetical Enemy 100
11. 6. Japanese Images of War with the United States 115
12. 7. From Ruth Benedict to Herman Kahn: The Postwar Japanese Image in the American Mind 138
13. 8. Postwar Japanese Education and the United States 169
14. 9. America as Seen by Japanese Travelers 188
15. 10. US. Elite Images of Japan: The Postwar Period 202
16. 11. The Visual Panacea: Japanese–Americans in the city of Smog 223
17. 12. Some Concluding Remarks: The Turning Mirrors 258
18. Contributors 269
19. Notes 271
20. INDEX 293
21. Backmatter 305