Cultural difference, media memories

This book sheds new light on the West's long and uneasy relationship with Japan, tracing its evolution from the nineteenth century to 1995--the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the War in the Pacific. The authors question received notions of cultural difference in the discourses of politics, anthropology, and journalism. With provocative new theoretical insights into the discussion of cultural difference and original research on the media coverage of a country seen as both comic and threatening, the book will be of interest to readers in the fields of media and cultural studies, anthropology, and Japanese studies.