Acknowledgments
Credit is due to the institutions that made this work possible. The Japanese Studies Association in Turkey (Japonya Araştırmaları Derneği) made this project possible by initiating the June 2012 Istanbul meeting in collaboration with the Asian Studies Center and the Department of History at Bogazici University as well as the kind support of the Consulate General of Japan in Istanbul.
We would like express special gratitude to Japan Foundation whose financial support was crucial for realizing the initial meeting in Istanbul that began the academic collaboration of the authors in this work. We would also like to thank Paul Norbury who attended the 2012 Meeting in Istanbul and was very encouraging. Paul recommended that it be published as a volume.
During 2014 and 2015, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Award enabled me to stay in Bremen, Germany as a visiting Humboldt scholar at Jacobs University that made this book possible by providing the fruitful environment for the preparation.
We would also like to thank the Turkish Academy of Sciences (
Japanese names are mostly given with last name first in line with Japanese practice unless preferred otherwise by the author. Turkish letter c is pronounced as j, ç is pronounced as ch, ş as sh in English, ğ as a soft g that is not pronounced, ö and ü as in German ö and ü. The Turkish letter ı which is an i without a dot is similar to the exclamation sound “uh” in English. Japanese words are written according to Hepburn romanization unless originally published in a different style.