Introduction; Joanne Miyang Cho, Lee M. Roberts, and Christian W. Spang<br>PART I: AMBIVALENT PARTNERS IN MODERNIZATION <br>1. The Myth of the 'Familiar Germany': German-Japanese Relationships in the Meiji Period Reexamined; Toru Takenaka <br>2. Karl von Eisendecher and Japan: Transnational Encounters and the Diplomacy of Imperialism; Sven Saaler <br>3. Count Hermann Keyserling's View of Japan: A Nation of Consummate Imitators; Joanne Miyang Cho <br>4. Western Criticism of an Occidental East: A German View of the Modernization of Japanese Literature, 1900-1945 ; Lee M. Roberts <br>PART II: TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERS BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS<br>5. When Jiu-jitsu was German: Japanese Martial Arts in German Sport and Körperkultur, 1905-1933; Sarah Panzer <br>6. Anna and Siegfried Berliner: Two Academic Bridge Builders between Germany and Japan; Hans K. Rode† and Christian W. Spang<br>7. The Expansion of Activities of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) during the Nazi Era; Christian W. Spang<br>8. Japanese Ambivalence towards Jewish Exiles in Japan; Thomas Pekar<br>PART III: POST-WORLD WAR II AFFINITY: PARIAH NATIONS? <br>9. The Nuremberg and Tokyo IMT Trials: A Comparative Analysis; David M. Crowe<br>10.A 'Penologic Program' for Japanese and German War Criminals, 1945-1958; Franziska Seraphim <br>11.German-Japanese Relations after the Second World War; Rolf-Harald Wippich<br>12.Peace, Business, and Classical Culture: The Relationship Between the German Democratic Republic and Japan; Volker Stanzel <br>13.Transnational Communicability: German-Japanese Literature by Yoko Tawada; Birgit Maier-Katkin and Lee M. Roberts<br>