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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781312603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2011

ISBN

1-283-27852-9

9786613278524

0-520-95037-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

327.7305209/04

Soggetti

Japan - Relations - United States

Japan -- Relations -- United States

Public opinion - Japan

Public opinion -- Japan

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

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

United States - Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States -- Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States - Relations - Japan

United States -- Relations -- Japan

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States - General

United States Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States Civilization 20th century Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States Relations Japan

Japan Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.