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Title Soft power superpowers [electronic resource] : cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States / Watanabe Yasushi and David L. McConnell, editors ; with a foreword by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Imprint Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxxii, 296 p. : ill.
Note "An East Gate book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Anti-Americanism in Japan / Watanabe Yasushi -- Japan's image problems and the soft power solution : the JET program as cultural diplomacy / David L. McConnell -- Higher education as a project of America's soft power / Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson -- Facing crisis : soft power and Japanese education in a global context / Yonezawa Akiyoshi -- Nurturing soft power : the impact of Japanese-U.S. university exchanges / Ellen Mashiko and Horie Miki -- The attractions of the j-wave for American youth / Anne Allison -- Shared memories : Japanese pop culture in China / Nakano Yoshiko -- Japan's creative industries : culture as a source of soft power in the industrial sector / Sugiura Tsutomu -- Baseball in U.S.-Japanese relations : a vehicle of soft power in historical perspective / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu -- American pop culture as soft power : movies and boradcasting / Matthew Fraser -- Wielding soft power : the key stages of transmission and reception / Kondo Seiichi -- Official soft power in practice : U.S. public diplomacy in Japan / William G. Crowell -- Japan does soft power : strategy and effectiveness of its public diplomacy in the United States / Agawa Naoyuki -- Mr. Madison in the twenty-first century : global diffusion of the people's "right to know" / Lawrence Repeta -- Soft power of NGOs : growing influence beyond national boundaries / Imata Katsuji and Kuroda Kaori.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cultural relations -- Case studies.
Intercultural communication -- Case studies.
Arts, American -- Foreign countries.
Arts, Japanese -- Foreign countries.
Popular culture -- United States.
Popular culture -- Japan.
United States -- Relations -- Japan.
Japan -- Relations -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Watanabe, Yasushi, 1967-
McConnell, David L., 1959-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780765622488 (cloth : alk. paper)
0765622483 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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