Introduction, from 'German measles' to 'honorary Aryans' : an overview of Japanese-German relations until 1945 / Christian W. Spand and rolf-Harald Wippich -- The imperial Japanese Army and Germany / Sven Saaler -- Naval relations between Japan and Germany from the late nineteenth-century until the end of World War II / Berthold J. Sander-Nagashima -- Japan-enthusiasm in Wilhelmine Germany : the case of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-5 / Rolf-Harald Wippich -- The 'yellow peril' and its influence on Japanese-German relations / Iikura Akira -- Exoticism in early twentieth-century German literature on Japan / Gerhard Schepers -- Personal contacts in Japanese-German cultural relations during the 1920s and early 1930s / Katō Tetsurō -- Karl Haushofer re-examined : geopolitics as a factor of Japanese-German rapprochement in the inter-war years? / Christian W. Spang -- The Berlin-Tokyo axis reconsidered : from the Anti-Comintern Pact to the plot to assassinate Stalin / Tajima Nobuo -- The German Nazi party : a model for Japan's 'new order' 1940-1? / Gerhard Krebs -- Japanese-German collaboration in the development of bacteriological and chemical weapons and the war in China / Bernd Martin.