Puts the spotlight on the world's reactions to Japan's Imperial agenda. It contains out of print and otherwise difficult to obtain publications - novels, pamphlets, articles - that respond both for and against Japan's propaganda.
Peter O'Connor, Ph.D. (2006) in history at SOAS, University of London, teaches at Musashino and Waseda universities, Tokyo. He has published extensively on the transnational media history of 20th century East Asia. His The English-language Press Networks of East Asia, 1918-1945 was issued by Global Oriental in September 2010. More recently, he completed, as series editor, Series 2 of Critical Readings on Japan, 1906-1948: Countering Japan's Agenda and the Communist Menace in East Asia, (June 2011), and thus the last ten volumes of the 40-volume collection The Representation of Japan in Modern East Asia, 1872-1948, to be published in June 2011.
