A companion volume to 'Baron Kaneko and the Russo-Japanese War'
(Lulu Press, 2009), this book relates the story of Baron Suematsu's
one-man campaign in Europe using the spoken and written word
against the dangerous bogey of Yellow Peril which fueled European
paranoia about China and Japan. Kaneko and Suematsu had similar
missions, though Kaneko who was sent to the United States was also
tasked with persuading President Theodore Roosevelt to broker a
peace settlement in due course, while Suematsu was more directly
involved in the fight against Yellow Peril which originated in
Europe, and with strengthening the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Kaneko
was a lawyer with a knowledge of economics, while Suematsu was a
historian with a literary bent who produced the first ever English
translation of 'Genji Monogatari'. Both men were also politicians
and close to the Meiji oligarch Ito Hirobumi. They were the two
prongs of Japan's first ever public diplomacy initiative, and both
succeeded to a considerable degree.
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