"Rediscovering America makes available in English for the first time a varied sampling of writings about the United States by Japanese observers from many different walks of life." - Robert Tierney, author of Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame "Rediscovering America is a splendid collection of Japanese writings on "the American century," covering the period from 1868 to 1989 (from the Meiji to the Showa eras in Japanese calendar). Many of the issues raised by the authors are still heard today," - Akira Iriye, author of Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations