The Japanese and Europe : images and perceptions / edited by Bert Edstrom.

Papers presented at one section of the eighth international conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, held in Budapest, Hungary in August 1997.

Unseen paradise : the image of Holland in the writings of Ando Shoeki / Karine Marandjian -- Debates on Naichi Zakkyo in Japan (1879-99) : the influenceof Spencerian social evolutionism on the Japanese perception of the West / Noriko Berlinguez-Kono -- Two Japanese on modernity : Fukuzawa Yukichi and Japanese images of Europe and the world as interpreted by Maruyama Masao / Joel Joos -- The break with Europe : Japanese views of the old world after the First World War/ Dick Stegewerns -- Perceptions of 'Europe' in Japanese historiography, 1945-65 / Sebastian Conrad -- Japanese employers' perceptions of European labour relations / John Crump -- Japanese interest in the Ottoman Empire / Selçuk Esenbel --Major Fukushima Yasumasa and his influence on the Japanese perception of Polandat the turn of the century / Ewa Palasz-Rutkowska -- Japan's enlightened war : military conduct and attitudes to the enemy during the Russo-Japanese War / Rotem Kowner -- Japan and Russia : mutual images, 1904-39 / Yulia Mikhailova