This article takes James Michener’s Sayonara (1954) and Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun (1992) as early and late examples of the ways in which Japanese place has been constructed as the ‘other’ against which American senses of spatial and cultural identity have been defined. Mass-market American fiction dealing with the experience of places defined as ‘Japanese’ has, in the post-war era, shown a movement away from a concept of Japanese place as something exotic, contained, and linked to the past, and towards an understanding of it as an unavoidable and invasive part of the American future. IMAGES OF OCCUPATION AND SPATIAL CONTROL IN THE US-JAPAN ENCOUNTERS OF AMERICAN MASS-MARKET FICTION: SAYONARA AND RISING SUN Abstract: Please refer to the published version when quoting or citing. This paper appeared in 1997 in The Keisen Jogakuen College Bulletin, 9, pp.
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