This is not another volume in the genre of ‘misunderstandings and misconceptions’ dividing east and west; rather, it is a wide-ranging review of intellectual traditions, mutual and alternative images, and case studies of particular people and events that mirror the focus of this book - from ‘Japanese Perceptions of Russia and Attitudes towards the Enemy in the Russo-Japanese War’ to ‘The Role of Europe in Japan’s Foreign Policy’ and ‘Japanese Reception of German Thought and Culture at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century’. These 18 contributions will be widely welcomed by students of Japanese history, politics and international relations, as well as students of intellectual history and political thought.