The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of âJapan-bashingâ from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the late 1970s to the emergence of other national variants including in Australia and Japan to its gradual decline in the late 1990s. It is the first major book-length study of âJapan-bashing from a multinational perspective one that attempts to place âJapan-bashingâ in its proper historical context and to examine its operation and legacy in the twenty-first century. Despite its importance in the study of discourses about Japan as well as in understanding broader global changes in the late twentieth century and beyond the phenomenon of âJapan-bashingâ remains largely neglected in published writings. Moreover it is a far more complex phenomenon than has been assessed thus far. While on first glance âJapan-bashingâ merely seems to recall other periods in which Japan has been viewed as a dangerous âotherâ to âthe Westâ such as the Western emphasis on the âyellow perilâ from the late nineteenth century as well as Allied anti-Japanese propaganda during World War II âJapan-bashingâ also had its own distinctive characteristics. Moreover while âJapan-bashingâ is often described as a quaint historical rather than a pressing contemporary phenomenon it is actually by no means extinct. The ongoing influence of âJapan-bashingâ also has parallels in other âbashingâ phenomena such as âChina-bashingâ. This book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students in Japanese studies and international relations. . Language: English