Table of Contents

Part 1 Earliest connections, before the 1630s: Japan in the western Pacific; geographical notions of Australia. Part 2 Japan's re-emergence 1850s-1895: return to the western Pacific; Japanese visitors' perceptions of Australia. Part 3 Imperial Japan faces white Australia 1896-1923: Japan's "Southward Advance" school of thought; white Australia and a shield forged; relations during and after World War 1. Part 4 Golden years 1924-1935: consolidation in the western pacific. Part 5 Japan's road to Port Darwin 1936-1942: "The Empire Will Go South"; to invade or not to invade Australia. Part 6 Australia in the "Nan'yo" literature 1940-1944: a fleeting moment of truth and fiction.