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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.
A companion volume to 'Baron Kaneko and the Russo-Japanese War'
(Lulu.com, 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 and their presumed sinister
intentions of world domination. 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 while Suematsu was more directly involved in the
fight against Yellow Peril which originated in Europe. Kaneko was a
lawyer with a knowledge of economics, while Suematsu was a
historian with a literary bent. 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.
HARDCOVER. This new translation from Japanese tells the story for
the first time in English of Baron Kaneko's one-man diplomatic
mission to the U.S. during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), in
which he was tasked with winning the hearts and minds of the
American people to the Japanese side. He achieved this through
personal contacts with major figures including his close friend
President Theodore Roosevelt, after-dinner speeches, lectures,
press conferences and newspaper interviews, thereby displaying a
mastery of the media which seems thoroughly modern in its influence
and control. Upholding the principles of Bushido as explained by
Nitobe Inazo in his book of that name first published in 1900, he
was careful not to attack or slander his Russian opponent Count
Cassini and mourned Admiral Makarov's death in battle. 26 B/W
images. This volume includes an extensive bibliography, a
chronology and an index. (Also available as a paperback or download
from the publisher, and at online retail stores.)
HARDCOVER. This new translation from Japanese tells the story for
the first time in English of Baron Kaneko's one-man diplomatic
mission to the U.S. during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), in
which he was tasked with winning the hearts and minds of the
American people to the Japanese side. He achieved this through
personal contacts with major figures including his close friend
President Theodore Roosevelt, after-dinner speeches, lectures,
press conferences and newspaper interviews, thereby displaying a
mastery of the media which seems thoroughly modern in its influence
and control. Upholding the principles of Bushido as explained by
Nitobe Inazo in his book of that name first published in 1900, he
was careful not to attack or slander his Russian opponent Count
Cassini and mourned Admiral Makarov's death in battle. 26 B/W
images. This volume includes an extensive bibliography, a
chronology and an index. (Also available as a paperback or download
from the publisher, and at online retail stores.)
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