1st Edition
Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945 War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion
Introduction: From ‘German Measles’ to ‘Honorary Aryans’: An overview of German-Japanese relations until 1945 Christian W. Spang, Rolf-Harald Wippich Part 1: Military Background 1. The Imperial Japanese Army and Germany Sven Saaler 2. Naval Relations between Japan and Germany from the Late Nineteenth Century until the End of World War II Berthold J. Sander-Nagashima Part 2: Mutual Perceptions 3. Japan-Enthusiasm in Wilhelmine Germany: The case of the Sino--Japanese War, 1894-5 Rolf-Harald Wippich 4. The ‘Yellow Peril’ and Its Influence on German-Japanese Relations Iikura Akira 5. Exoticism in Early Twentieth Century German Literature on Japan Gerhard Schepers Part 3: Culture and Science 6. Personal Contacts in German-Japanese Cultural Relations during the 1920s and Early 1930s Kato Tetsuro 7. Karl Haushofer Re-examined: Geopolitics as a factor of German--Japanese rapprochement in the inter-war years? Christian W. Spang Part 4: Rapprochement and War 8. The Berlin-Tokyo Axis Reconsidered: From the anti-comintern pact to the plot to assassinate Stalin Tajima Nobuo 9. The German Nazi Party: A model for Japan’s ‘New Order’ 1940-1? Gerhard Krebs 10. German-Japanese Collaboration in the Development of Bacteriological and Chemical Weapons and the War in China Bernd Martin
Biography
Christian W. Spang is a Lecturer at Sophia University (Tokyo) and Dokkyo University (Saitama), Japan.
Rolf-Harald Wippich is Professor of History at Sophia University (Tokyo), Japan.
