Soft power superpowers  cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States /  [electronic resource] : 
Watanabe Yasushi and David L. McConnell, editors ; with a foreword by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. 
 - Armonk, N.Y. :  M.E. Sharpe,  c2008. 
 - xxxii, 296 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "An East Gate book." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Anti-Americanism in Japan / Watanabe Yasushi -- Japan's image problems and the soft power solution : the JET program as cultural diplomacy / David L. McConnell -- Higher education as a project of America's soft power / Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson -- Facing crisis : soft power and Japanese education in a global context / Yonezawa Akiyoshi -- Nurturing soft power : the impact of Japanese-U.S. university exchanges / Ellen Mashiko and Horie Miki -- The attractions of the j-wave for American youth / Anne Allison -- Shared memories : Japanese pop culture in China / Nakano Yoshiko -- Japan's creative industries : culture as a source of soft power in the industrial sector / Sugiura Tsutomu -- Baseball in U.S.-Japanese relations : a vehicle of soft power in historical perspective / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu -- American pop culture as soft power : movies and boradcasting / Matthew Fraser -- Wielding soft power : the key stages of transmission and reception / Kondo Seiichi -- Official soft power in practice : U.S. public diplomacy in Japan / William G. Crowell -- Japan does soft power : strategy and effectiveness of its public diplomacy in the United States / Agawa Naoyuki -- Mr. Madison in the twenty-first century : global diffusion of the people's "right to know" / Lawrence Repeta -- Soft power of NGOs : growing influence beyond national boundaries / Imata Katsuji and Kuroda Kaori. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA879032  bnb 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cultural relations--Case studies.<br/>Intercultural communication--Case studies.<br/>Arts, American--Foreign countries.<br/>Arts, Japanese--Foreign countries.<br/>Popular culture--United States.<br/>Popular culture--Japan.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Relations--Japan.<br/>Japan--Relations--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E183.8.J3  / S65 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.73052