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Soft power superpowers : cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States / Watanabe Yasushi and David L. McConnell, editors ; with a foreword by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Watanabe, Yasushi, 1967-
McConnell, David L., 1959-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cultural relations--Case studies.
Cultural relations.
Intercultural communication--Case studies.
Intercultural communication.
Arts, American--Foreign countries.
Arts, American.
Arts, Japanese--Foreign countries.
Arts, Japanese.
Popular culture--United States.
Popular culture.
Popular culture--Japan.
United States--Relations--Japan.
United States.
Japan--Relations--United States.
Japan.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The term soft power describes a country's ability to get what it wants by attracting rather than coercing others--by engaging hearts and minds through cultural and political values and foreign policies that other countries see as legitimate and conducive to their own interests. This book analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century.
Contents:
Anti-Americanism in Japan / Watanabe Yasushi
Japan's image problems and the soft power solution : the JET program as cultural diplomacy / David L. McConnell
Higher education as a project of America's soft power / Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson
Facing crisis : soft power and Japanese education in a global context / Yonezawa Akiyoshi
Nurturing soft power : the impact of Japanese-U.S. university exchanges / Ellen Mashiko and Horie Miki
The attractions of the j-wave for American youth / Anne Allison
Shared memories : Japanese pop culture in China / Nakano Yoshiko
Japan's creative industries : culture as a source of soft power in the industrial sector / Sugiura Tsutomu
Baseball in U.S.-Japanese relations : a vehicle of soft power in historical perspective / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
American pop culture as soft power : movies and boradcasting / Matthew Fraser
Wielding soft power : the key stages of transmission and reception / Kondo Seiichi
Official soft power in practice : U.S. public diplomacy in Japan / William G. Crowell
Japan does soft power : strategy and effectiveness of its public diplomacy in the United States / Agawa Naoyuki
Mr. Madison in the twenty-first century : global diffusion of the people's "right to know" / Lawrence Repeta
Soft power of NGOs : growing influence beyond national boundaries / Imata Katsuji and Kuroda Kaori.
Notes:
"An East Gate book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Other Format:
Print version: Soft power superpowers : cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States
ISBN:
1-317-45964-4
1-315-70070-0
1-317-45965-2
1-282-11965-6
9786612119651
0-7656-2282-3
9781315700700
OCLC:
471133938

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