Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. Changing Japanese-Russian Images in the Edo Period -- 2. Japonisme in Russia in the Late Nineteenth and Early TwentiethCenturies -- 3. Japan's 'Fifteen Minutes of Glory': Managing World Opinion during the War with Russia, 1904-1905 -- 4. Japan's Place in Russian and Soviet National Identity: From Port Arthur to Khalkhin-gol -- 5. Memory and Identity: Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union -- 6. Constructing the Screen Image of an Ideal Partner -- 7. Disintegration of the Soviet Union as Seen in Japanese Political Cartoons -- 8. Images in Tinted Mirrors: Japanese-Russian Perceptions in Provincial Japan -- 9. Images at an Impasse: Anime and Manga in Contemporary Russia -- 10. Strategies of Representation: Japanese Politicians on Russian Internet and Television -- Bibliography -- Index.