A community of sugar cane workers from Japan strike for a wage increase in 1920 Oahu, straining relations between Japan and the United States, underscoring racial tensions between Japanese labor and the American sugar industry, and leading to the passage of the Japanese Exclusio…
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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…
Identifying the period under examination as an unusual time during which China, Japan, and the United States all had positive relations with each other, Vogel, Ming, and Akihiko present nine essays that examine the triangle of international relations from a triangle of national …
Identifying the period under examination as an unusual time during which China, Japan, and the United States all had positive relations with each other, Vogel, Ming, and Akihiko present nine essays that examine the triangle of international relations from a triangle of national …
"Apart from the book's inherent critical value deriving from the fact that it offers a new scholarly examination of Japan-US relations in the twentieth century leading to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the greater strength of the study is to be found in the author's in-depth a…