Japan and Russia: Three Centuries of Mutual Images

Table of Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 11
Note on Conventions......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
1. Changing Japanese-Russian Images in the Edo Period......Page 25
2. Japonisme in Russia in the Late Nineteenth and Early TwentiethCenturies......Page 46
3. Japan’s ‘Fifteen Minutes of Glory’: Managing World Opinion during the War with Russia, 1904–1905......Page 61
4. Japan’s Place in Russian and Soviet National Identity: From Port Arthur to Khalkhin-gol......Page 85
5. Memory and Identity: Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union......Page 105
6. Constructing the Screen Image of an Ideal Partner......Page 126
7. Disintegration of the Soviet Union as Seen in Japanese Political Cartoons......Page 148
8. Images in Tinted Mirrors: Japanese-Russian Perceptions in Provincial Japan......Page 167
9. Images at an Impasse: Anime and Manga in Contemporary Russia......Page 189
10. Strategies of Representation: Japanese Politicians on Russian Internet and Television......Page 206
Bibliography......Page 222
Index......Page 244