R icky W. L aw . Transnational Nazism

Ricky W. Law’s media-historical monograph Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936 is a welcome addition to the growing field of Asian-German studies. Other books have examined Germany’s reception in Japan, or vice versa, but to do both in one volume is exceptional. The first four chapters deal with Japanese newspapers, speeches and pamphlets, nonfiction works, and German language textbooks; the last four chapters analyze German newspapers, films, nonfiction works, and various “Voluntary Associations.” This enumeration shows that only chapters 1 (“Germany in [Japanese] Newspapers”) and 3 (“Germany in [Japanese] Nonfiction”) have their direct counterparts in chapters 5 and 7. While on the Japanese side, lectures, pamphlets, and language textbooks are further scrutinized, German movies and Japan-related associations are analyzed. The separation into eight parts, each dealing with one distinct topic, makes each of them look somewhat unconnected to the others, which is further emphasized by the fact...

Art · German · Ideology · Japanese culture · Japanese studies · Literature · Media studies · Nazism · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies