Transnational Encounters Between Germany and Japan : Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

Introduction: Joanne Miyang Cho, Lee M. Roberts, and Christian W. Spang Part I. Ambivalent Partners in Modernization 1. The Myth of the "Familiar Germany": German-Japanese Relationships in the Meiji Period Reexamined Toru Takenaka 2. Karl von Eisendecher and Japan: Transnational Encounters and the Diplomacy of Imperialism Sven Saaler 3. Count Hermann Keyserling's View of Japan: A Nation of Consummate Imitators Joanne Miyang Cho 4. Western Criticism of an Occidental East: A German View of the Modernization of Japanese Literature, 1900-1945 Lee M. Roberts Part II. Transnational Partners between Two World Wars 5. When Jiu-jitsu was German: Japanese Martial Arts in German Sport - and Korperkultur , 1905-1933 Sarah Panzer 6. Anna and Siegfried Berliner: Two Academic Bridge Builders between Germany and Japan Hans K. Rode and Christian W. Spang 7. The Expansion of Activities of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) during the Nazi Era Christian W. Spang 8. Japanese Ambivalence towards Jewish Exiles in Japan Thomas Pekar Part III. Post-World War II Affinity: Pariah Nations? 9. The Nuremberg and Tokyo IMT Trials: A Comparative Analysis David M. Crowe 10. A "Penologic Program" for Japanese and German War Criminals, 1945-1958 Franziska Seraphim 11. German-Japanese Relations after the Second World War Rolf-Harald Wippich 12. Peace, Business, and Classical Culture: The Relationship Between the German Democratic Republic and Japan Volker Stanzel 13. Transnational Communicability: German-Japanese Literature by Yoko Tawada Birgit Maier-Katkin and Lee M. Roberts