Baron Kaneko and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05): A Study in the Public Diplomacy of Japan, 6. köideLulu.com, 2009 - 499 pages PAPERBACK. 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 hardcover, small paperback or download from lulu.com, and at online retail stores.) |
Contents
The sevenarticle memorandum for the mission | 12 |
The proRussian atmosphere of Chicago | 25 |
The antiJapanese stance of Irish Americans | 40 |
The Presidents feelings | 53 |
The center of activity for public diplomacy | 57 |
A speech of mourning for Japans foe Admiral Makarov | 70 |
An eloquent orator surpassing Mark Antony | 95 |
Support for the issue of foreign bonds | 109 |
Japans Best Friend Theodore Roosevelt | 267 |
Victory at the Battle of Mukden | 281 |
Carnegie Hall | 295 |
The U S Veterans of Foreign Wars | 308 |
Praise for the AngloJapanese Alliance | 311 |
Renewed issue of foreign bonds | 324 |
A threatening letter | 337 |
Change of tone an omen of the changing tide | 349 |
The theory of Christian versus pagan countries | 124 |
The Saint Louis International Exposition | 137 |
Preventing the spread of Yellow Peril | 151 |
All going out nothing coming in | 167 |
Positive steps to financial publicity | 174 |
Kanekos essay The Yellow Peril is the Golden | 188 |
The banquet of the antiJapanese Lotus Club | 202 |
Lecture titled The Characteristics of the Japanese People | 215 |
An important personally signed letter from | 224 |
The Society of Friends of Russian Freedom | 239 |
Illustrations between pages 245 and 246 | 246 |
Into the bottom of his letter box for the time being | 259 |
The victory of the Japanese navy and American public opinion | 365 |
Sagamore Hill residence and Japans version of the | 380 |
Evading the journalists | 396 |
The Japanese plenipotentiaries in their | 403 |
reparations | 420 |
The RussoJapanese War in America | 438 |
Montgomery Roosevelt the banker | 453 |
The struggle to win over public opinion | 466 |
Select Bibliography | 481 |
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