Focusing on the ideological contradictions inherent in the German alliance with Japan during World War II this book analyses German discourse about Japan from the distinct yet intricately connected standpoints of the GermanJapanese historical relationship the scientific and pseudoscientific presentation of Japan in Germany and German fictional depictions of Japan. The volume examines the historical relationship between Germany and Japan in the light of their alliance. It also traces the origins and development of the image of Japan in Nazi Germany. Through nonfiction texts the points of emphasis friction and outright contradiction are discovered between Nazi ideology and an alliance with Japan as they were discussed both publicly and privately in Germany at the time. Finally by examining fictional depictions of Japan and the Japanese under the Nazis the work reveals the means by which fiction addressed these ideological issues and incorporated the historical and nonfictional arguments of its contemporaries. This book looks carefully at its connection to other historical political racial and ideological thought of the time.