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Public Diplomacy (PD) has been an essential part of foreign policy. It is government-sponsored programs intended to influence public opinion in other countries. The importance of PD is not only a current topic. It was widely focused in prewar Japan. This paper describes Japanese efforts to promote favorable impressions of Japan in the minds of the Chinese public in the 1910s, when Chinese anti-Japan sentiments erupted against Japanese expansionism. Japanese policymakers hoped that cultural policy toward, and exchange with, China would create better understanding of Japan, and calm down Chinese feelings, in order to pursue its national interests in China. This paper sheds light on two different, apparently opposite, but intertwined ideas that led to the establishment of Japan’s cultural policy. |
