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Showcasing moments of convergence between the German and Japanese cultures towards common points of interest over the last one hundred fifty years, the chapters in this book cover such topics as culture, diplomacy, geography, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, and sports. From the creation of two similar modern nation-states, to the aggressive struggle for national supremacy and subsequent total defeat in 1945, the necessity of coping with their earlier militarism and parallel economic miracles in the postwar era, Germans and Japanese look back on a remarkably similar past.

Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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 Körperkultur, 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