TY - BOOK AU - Cho,Joanne Miyang AU - Roberts,Lee M. AU - Spang,Christian W. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries T2 - Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies SN - 9781137573971 (ebook:PDF) U1 - 943 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint) KW - Europe, Central-History KW - World history KW - Asia-History KW - History of Germany and Central Europe N2 - Showcasing moments of convergence between the German and Japanese cultures towards common points of interest over the last one hundred fifty years, the chapters in this book cover such topics as culture, diplomacy, geography, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, and sports. From the creation of two similar modern nation-states, to the aggressive struggle for national supremacy and subsequent total defeat in 1945, the necessity of coping with their earlier militarism and parallel economic miracles in the postwar era, Germans and Japanese look back on a remarkably similar past UR - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137573971 ER -