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Introduction: From ‘German Measles’ to ‘Honorary Aryans’: An overview of German-Japanese relations until 1945  Part 1: Military Background  1. The Imperial Japanese Army and Germany  2. Naval Relations between Japan and Germany from the Late Nineteenth Century until the End of World War II  Part 2: Mutual Perceptions  3. Japan-Enthusiasm in Wilhelmine Germany: The case of the Sino--Japanese War, 1894-5  4. The ‘Yellow Peril’ and Its Influence on German-Japanese Relations  5. Exoticism in Early Twentieth Century German Literature on Japan  Part 3: Culture and Science  6. Personal Contacts in German-Japanese Cultural Relations during the 1920s and Early 1930s  7. Karl Haushofer Re-examined: Geopolitics as a factor of German-Japanese rapprochement in the inter-war years?  Part 4: Rapprochement and War  8. The Berlin-Tokyo Axis Reconsidered: From the anti-comintern pact to the plot to assassinate Stalin  9. The German Nazi Party: A model for Japan’s ‘New Order’ 1940-1?  10. German-Japanese Collaboration in the Development of Bacteriological and Chemical Weapons and the War in China