Japan on the Silk Road

Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations viii Contributors (By Order of Chapter) x Introduction - Selcuk Esenbel 1 and the Great Game - Ian Nish 2 Western and Central in the Eyes of the Japanese Radical Right - Christopher W.A. Szpilman 3 Fukushima Yasumasa's Travels in Central and Siberia: Silk Road Romanticism, Military Reconnaissance, or Modern Exploration? - Sven Saaler 4 Fukushima Yasumasa and Utsunomiya Taro on the Edge of the Silk Road: Pan-Asian Visions and the Network of Military Intelligence from the Ottoman and Qajar Realms into Central - Selcuk Esenbel 5 Mongolia as a Base for Central and the Silk Road - Li Narangoa 6 Abdurreshid Ibrahim and Japanese Approaches to Central - Komatsu Hisao 7 Exploring Asia, Reforming Japan: Otani Kozui and Ito Chuta - Brij Tankha 8 Otani Kozui and His Vision of Asia: From Villa Nirakuso to Rise of Asia Project - Erdal Kucukyalcin 9 The Effects of the Russo-Japanese War on Turkic Nations: and Japanese in Folk Songs, Elegies, and Poems - A. Merthan Dundar 10 Some Notes on the Japanese Records and Information on the Turks - Katayama Akio 11 Tracing Origins Along the Silk Road: Japanese Architect Ito Chuta's Travel in the Ottoman Lands -Miyuki Aoki Girardelli 12 The Beginning of Turkish Philology and Linguistics in - Klaus Roehrborn 13 Appendix to the Beginning of Turkish Philology and Linguistics in Japan - Mehmet OElmez 14 F. Beato beyond Empires: Flaneur, Photo Reporter, Merchant - Banu Kaygusuz 15 Translation Practices on the Silk Road and Akutagawa Ryunosuke's Toshishun - Oguz Baykara 16 Transforming an Ancient Myth into a Popular Medieval Tale - Masako Sato Index 365

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