Rediscovering America : Japanese Perspectives on the American Century / Peter Duus, Kenji Hasegawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duus, Peter, 1933-2022, Editor.

Hasegawa, Kenji, Editor.

Series:

Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Relations--United States.

Public opinion--Japan.

United States--Civilization--20th century--Foreign public opinion, Japanese.

United States--Foreign public opinion, Japanese.

United States--Relations--Japan.

Public opinion.

United States.

Japan.

Local Subjects:

Japan--Relations--United States.

Public opinion--Japan.

United States--Civilization--20th century--Foreign public opinion, Japanese.

United States--Foreign public opinion, Japanese.

United States--Relations--Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them dealt with common themes-America's origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance-making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Illusion and Disillusion

Chapter 2. Students and Immigrants

Chapter 3. Modan America

Chapter 4. The American Enemy

Chapter 5. The American Occupiers

Chapter 6. America Ascendant

Chapter 7. America in Decline

Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613278524

9781283278522

1283278529

9780520950375

0520950372

OCLC:

747412137