This study explores U.S-Japanese relations in the interwar period to find that the seeds of the Pacific War were sown in the failure of cultural diplomacy and the growth of mutually antagonistic images. While most Americans came to see Japan's modernity as a façade, the Japanese began to group Americans with the warlike European powers.

Autorentext
JON DAVIDANN is Associate Professor of History, Hawaii Pacific University, USA.

Inhalt
The Seeds of War American Perceptions of Japan: Liberal Modernity or Feudal Militarism Japanese Response to Orientalism War Talk and John Dewey: Tensions Concerning China The Washington Conference, the Kanto Earthquake and Japanese Public Opinion: Victories for Liberals? Immigration Exclusion The Liberal Challenge: Responses to Immigration Exclusion New Emperor, New Tensions in Manchuria 'Oriental' Duplicity or Progress and Order: The Manchurian Incident 'America is very difficult to get along with:' Anti-Americanism, Japanese Militarism, and Spying, 1934-1937 'A Certain Presentiment of Fatal Danger:' The Sino-Japanese War and U.S-Japanese Relations, 1937-1939 The March to War Impact on the Postwar World