Cultural diplomacy in u.s.-japanese relations, 1919-1941 2007

The seeds of the Pacific War can be found scattered throughout the interwar period. This study of unofficial diplomacy from 1919-1941 illuminates causes deeply rooted and often overlooked in explaining the path to war: cultural perceptions on both sides, the pivotal role of public opinion, and the deterioration of Japanese-American relations on both the individual and the cultural levels. This book explores U.S-Japanese relations in the inter-war period. It has recieved excellent reviews from top scholars in the field. Completely original, this project represents an entirely unique approach to American national identity and explores an often dismissed medium. It draws its arguments from primary sources and hands-on research: interviews, museum collections, films, television, archival materials, correspondence, etc. Because of its focus on American cultural history, this book would be appealing to students and scholars of U.S. history and cultural studies, as well as to specialists of theatre history and performance art studies. It will also appeal to postmodern theorists, anthropologists, and art historians, not to mention practitioners of the art form itself. This study explores US-Japanese relations in the interwar period to find that the seeds of the Pacific War were sown in the failure of cultural diplomacy and the growth of mutually antagonistic images. While most Americans came to see Japan's modernity as a facade, the Japanese began to group Americans with the warlike European powers Introduction : The Seeds Of War -- American Perceptions Of Japan : Liberal Modernity Or Feudal Militarism -- Japanese Response To Orientalism -- War Talk And John Dewey : Tensions Concerning China -- The Washington Conference, The Kanto Earthquake And Japanese Public Opinion : Victories For Liberals? -- Immigration Exclusion -- The Liberal Challenge : Responses To Immigration Exclusion -- New Emperor, New Tensions In Manchuria -- Oriental Duplicity Or Progress And Order : The Manchurian Incident -- America Is Very Difficult To Get Along With : Anti-americanism, Japanese Militarism, And Spying, 1934-1937 -- A Certain Presentiment Of Fatal Danger : The Sino-japanese War And U.s-japanese Relations, 1937-1939 -- The March To War -- Epilogue : Impact On The Postwar World. Jon Thares Davidann. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [253]-256) And Index. This study explores U.S-Japanese relations in the interwar period to find that the seeds of the Pacific War were sown in the failure of cultural diplomacy and the growth of mutually antagonistic images. While most Americans came to see Japan's modernity as a façade, the Japanese began to group Americans with the warlike European powers.