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This book is the pioneer scholarly work in English on the history of Japanese-Turkish relations between 1868 and 1945. Based upon original primary source documentation and introducing new perspectives, the subject offers the opportunity of tracing the history of nationalism in terms of Japanese Asianism and Pan-Turkist, Pan-Islamist currents as we the Kemalist agenda of the new secular Turkish Republic. Topics include the exciting stories of political actors from the Turkish world and their Japanese counterparts. Japanese and Turkish intellectuals, diplomats, intelligence agents, and merchants roamed across Eurasia from Istanbul through Central Asia. Many were adventures, crossing cultural and political borders, participating in the tumultuous events surrounding the rise of Japan, the fall of the Romanov and Ottoman empires, and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.

The authors focus on the history of Japan's connections with the "Turkish Crescent" as a global geo-political-economic strategy vis-à-vis Russia and Britain and as an entry into the world of Islam. Simultaneously, this is the history of Japan as the "Rising Sun" in the eyes of Turks, Tatars, Indians and others of the revolutionary and reformist movements in anti-colonial struggles within the Islamic world at the turn of the twentieth century. They juxtaposed Japan's modernity as parallel to that of the West. Many looked up to the Japanese experience as an alternative model to the modernity of the Western empires.

Scholars from Japan and Turkey have had a significant hand in the preparation of this volume which is published on the occasion of the Year of Turkey 2003 in Japan. Thirteen experts offer fresh insight into a rich array of topics ranging from Japan's international relations with Turkey, Russia, Britain, and Germany to the comparison of Japan and Turkey in municipal reforms and the current global economic crisis.(Arka kapaktan)

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