Japanese institutions published propaganda for many international audiences. Such a project threatened other imperialist nations. Also, there was an intense propaganda war starting in the late s between American pro-Chinese and pro-Japanese interest groups. American businesses carried on a brisk trade with Japan and Manzhouguo, selling manufactured goods to an active market. Another surprise was the emphasis on popular culture, such as travel, films, and especially sports, for propaganda purposes.
The Japanese claimed that they were culturally more like Americans than the Chinese were and they invited tourists to enjoy the improvements in recreational facilities in areas under their control.
One of their film stars was nicknamed the Judy Garland of Asia. They pointed out their role in the spread of baseball to the Asian mainland and encouraged sports exchanges. Alisa Harris Profile. Boston University moderates comments to facilitate an informed, substantive, civil conversation. Abusive, profane, self-promotional, misleading, incoherent or off-topic comments will be rejected.
Moderators are staffed during regular business hours EST and can only accept comments written in English. The latest figures from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which collects data on developed nations, show that the average employee in Japan worked 1, hours in , less than the 1, hours put in by an average American.
Bruce Stokes, director of global economic attitudes for Pew Research and principal author of the survey, said some views expressed in the survey may reflect stereotypes, but they are important nonetheless.
But these emotions matter. Such stereotypes help drive broader attitudes about policy," Stokes said. The results come just weeks ahead of a scheduled address before a joint session of Congress by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — the first by a Japanese premier in the post-war era — and as negotiations between the two countries continue on a sweeping trans-Pacific trade pact and revision of U.
The Japanese strongly disagree. The animosity of the s and s, when U. On a personal level, Americans associate positive personality traits with the Japanese, but do not associate negative stereotypes with people in Japan.
Americans overwhelmingly see Japanese as hardworking, inventive and honest. The Japanese offer a more mixed assessment of Americans. A majority of Japanese voice the view that Americans are inventive, but half also say Americans are aggressive. And relatively few think of Americans as hardworking and honest. China looms large in the minds of both Americans and Japanese in their consideration of the U.
Six-in-ten Americans believe that the rise of China as a military and economic power makes relations between Japan and the U.
At the same time, a majority of Americans see Japan as a status quo economic power, neither rising nor declining. More Americans, especially young Americans, think it is important to have strong economic ties with China than believe it is important to have such ties with Japan.
These are among the main findings of Pew Research Center nationwide phone surveys conducted in the United States among 1, adults from February 12 to February 15, , and in Japan among 1, adults from January 30 to February 12, Since the s, U. No single event in the recent relationship dominates public memory in either Japan or the U.
And different incidents feature most prominently in American and Japanese consciousness. For Americans, the most significant periods in the U. For Japanese, the most important aspect of the relationship is the ongoing U. One-in-five cite the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, possibly a reflection of the fact that 24, U. Notably, there is no significant generation gap among Japanese in their memories of the war. Even among the demographic groups in the U.
Similarly, during that period, Democrats were often more critical of Japanese trade policy than were Republicans. Americans, in surveys with similar wording, have consistently approved of this first and only use of nuclear weapons in war and have thought it was justified. The Japanese have not. Not surprisingly, there is a large generation gap among Americans in attitudes toward the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Despite this lingering disagreement over the justification for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, few Americans or Japanese believe Japan owes an apology for its actions during WWII. And three-quarters of Japanese share a similar degree of trust of the U. There is a gender gap in how both publics see each other. Also in the U. But there is no significant partisan difference among Americans in their trust of Japan. Looking ahead, Americans generally support keeping the U.
When asked whether they would prefer that the U. The future of U. Japan is currently the fourth-largest trading partner of the U.
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