Politely adversarial : perceptions of Japan in New Zealand print media, 1895 - 1942

Abstract

This thesis focuses on how New Zealanders viewed Japan from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of war in the Pacific Theatre in 1941. The goals of this research are to ascertain the self-perceptions of New Zealanders based upon how they viewed Japan, replete with the general vernacular used to describe the Japanese and the racial and political attitudes that such vernacular represented.