Rediscovering America : Japanese perspectives on the American century / edited by Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa.

Includes bibliographical references.

In this collection of writings, covering the period from 1878-1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Illusion and Disillusion -- "On Relations among Nations" (1878) / Sugiyama Shigeru -- "Strange Encounters with Beautiful Women" (1885-1887) / Shiba Shiro -- "Religion in America" (1889) / Inoue Enryo -- "First Impressions of Christendom" (1893) / Uchimura Kanzo -- "Letters from San Francisco" (1905-1906) / Kotoku Shusui -- 2. Students and Immigrants -- "Advice on Going to America" (1901) / Katayama Sen -- "My Life in California" (1911) / Noguchi Yonejiro -- "Home Life in America" (1916) / Aoyama Tetsushiro -- "Excluded Japanese and Exclusionist Americans" (1920) / Sasaki Shigetsu -- "The Soul of America" (1921) / Anonymous -- "On the Anti-Japanese Movement in America" (1924) / Shibusawa Eiichi -- 3. Modan America -- "America on the Rise" (1925) / Ashida Hitoshi -- "The Characteristics and Peculiarities of the Americans" (1925) / Maida Minoru -- "Baseball and the American Character" (1925) / Abe Isoo -- "American High Society" (1925) / Noguchi Yonejiro -- "The Troublesome American Woman" (1927) / Sasaki Shigetsu -- "Motion Pictures: The Americanization Machine" (1929) / Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke -- "America, the Land of Speed" (1929) / Kiyosawa Kiyoshi -- 4. American Enemy -- "My Impressions of Washington and New York" (1934) / Konoe Fumimaro -- "American Perspectives on Japan, and Vice Versa" (1941) / Kada Tetsuji -- "On the History of American Imperialism" (1941) / Sawada Ken -- "America's Race Problem" (1941) / Muneo Matsuji -- "Remembering American Baseball" (1941) / Miyake Daisuke -- "The American Home Front" (1942) / Matsushita Masatoshi -- "The Will to Annihilate the American Enemy" (1943) / Nakano Goro -- "Why Do Americans Break the Law?" (1944) / Sakanishi Shiho -- Roundtable Discussion: "Grasping the Reality of the American Enemy" (1944) -- 5. American Occupiers -- "Illegal Behavior by American Soldiers" (1945) / Home Ministry -- "Whence the American Sense of Morality?" (1945) / Kagawa Toyohiko -- "Culture and the Arts in America" (1945) / Ito Michio -- "Remembering General MacArthur" (1951) 206 Symposium, "What We Have Gained from America, and What We Have Lost" (1932) / Asahi Shinbun -- "What Is America to Us?" (1967) / Sato Tadao -- 6. America Ascendant -- "The American Housewife" (1951) / Ishigaki Ayako -- "The Dynamic Logic of American Capitalism" (1956) / Goto Yonosuke -- "America after Fourteen Years" (1956) / Tsuru Shigeto -- "The Other Side of American Society" (1961) / Oda Makoto -- "Living in Nashville" (1960-1961) / Yasuoka Shotaro -- "America as I See It" (1963) / Eto]un -- "The Old Face of America" (1964) / Eto Jun -- "Dealing with Pearl Harbor" (1967) / Oe Kenzaburo -- 7. America in Decline -- "Americans: Between War and Peace" (1965) / Oda Makoto -- "Traveling through the Deep South" (1970) / Honda Katsuicbi -- "The Lonely American" (1971) / Kirishima Yoko -- "Hot Days in Harlem" (1972) / Yoshida Ruiko -- "A Proposal for Encouraging America" (1980) / Kosaka Masataka -- "Glorious America, Where Are You?" (1980) / Shimomura Mitsuko -- "Rediscovering America's Dynamic Society" (1987) / Saeki Shoichi -- "Koreans in New York" (1989) / Yomota Inuhiko -- "The Trouble with the American Economy" (1989) / Morita Akio.

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