This examine explores U.S-Japanese kin within the interwar interval to discover that the seeds of the Pacific warfare have been sown within the failure of cultural international relations and the expansion of collectively opposed pictures. whereas such a lot american citizens got here to determine Japan's modernity as a façade, the japanese started to team americans with the warlike eu powers.
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