This book examines the imaginative narratives that shaped the attitudes of Americans (and others) toward Japan. Focusing on cultural aspects of economic nationalism and US-Japan relations during the trade war Marie Thorsten uses examples from public discourse, film, documentarie…
This book examines the imaginative narratives that shaped the attitudes of Americans (and others) toward Japan. Focusing on cultural aspects of economic nationalism and US-Japan relations during the trade war Marie Thorsten uses examples from public discourse, film, documentarie…
From the 1980s to the 1990s, Japan - the former Second World War enemy - was reborn as public economy number one in America. By the early twenty-first century, this American fear of Japanese conquest looms either as the unusual episode of American empire or as a preview of the c…