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

This volume examines the mutual images formed between Japan and Germany from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Exploring previously untapped historical sources, the contributions by seventeen leading scholars create a more nuanced picture of Japanese-German relations.

About the author

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.

Kudō 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 Seijō 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.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2017
• EAN: 9789004345416
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34541-6
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous