ABSTRACT

Limited primarily to non-political attitudes held by people outside of Japan and to foreign knowledge and images of Japan and of Japanese civilization. For Western reactions to Japanese aggression in East Asia, see especially International Relations–China/Manchurian Incident (pages 127 - 131). For Chinese attitudes towards Japanese activities and aggression in China, see International Relations–China (pages 112 - 133) and History–Japanese Empire/Taiwan (pages 98 - 99). For Korean attitudes towards Japan, see History–Japanese Empire/Chösen (pages 90 - 95) and International Relations–Korea (pages 133 - 136). For Southeast Asian attitudes, see in particular International Relations–Southeast Asia during World War II (pages 138 - 143). Canadian and American attitudes towards Japanese immigration are entered under Overseas Japanese Communities– Canada (pages 198 - 199) and Overseas Japanese Communities–United States (pages 200 - 208).