Jan Schmidt is associate professor of Modern History of Japan at the KU Leuven. Willy Vande Walle is professor emeritus of Japanese Studies at the KU Leuven.

• Errata : In the printed book, there is an error in the source citations at the top right from p. 254 to p. 271. This has been corrected in the Open Access ebook that can be accessed and downloaded here.KU Leuven and UCLouvain’s Co-operation Strengthened by Japan — Luc Sels & Vincent Blondel Message by the Ambassador of Japan to Belgium — Shimokawa Makita Introduction — Jan Schmidt, Willy Vande Walle, Eline Mennens The First World War as the Precondition to the Japanese Donation to the University of Louvain — Jan Schmidt An Empire of the Mid-Tier: The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the New Mass Public-Focused Diplomacy of the Early Twentieth Century — Lieven Sommen The Japanese Book Donation to the University of Louvain — Willy Vande Walle Selected Books from the 1920s Japanese Donation — Willy Vande Walle Japanese Art in Belgium in the 1920s: Hidden Treasures and Public Celebrations — Freya Terryn Japan’s Sonic Modernity: Popular Music and Culture in the 1920s — Aurel Baele Selected Objects from 1920s Japan: Modernity in Popular Culture, Media, Society and Politics as Background to the Donation — Jan Schmidt Notes About the Editors and Authors Bibliography Acknowledgements Classification List of Selected Books List of Selected Objects List of Background Explanations Alphabetical List of Selected Books Alphabetical List of Selected Objects Colophon