About the Author

Masao Miyoshi is Hajime Mori Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparitive Literature Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Off Center: Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States.

Reviews

""As We Saw Them" is a pioneering work in the relationship between cultures....an invaluable work of insight and interpretation." --Edward Said

"Miyoshi has given a marvelous and revealing account of a dramatic case of confrontation of cultures and civilizations." --Noam Chomsky

"Miyoshi's masterful account is, by turns, alarming and hilarious as two cultures meet at the court of President James Buchanan." --Gore Vidal