Rediscovering America : Japanese Perspectives on the American Century /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.