This book is the pioneer scholarly work in English on the history of Japanese-Turkish relations between 1868 and 1945. Based upon original primary source documentation and introducing new perspectives the subject offers the opportunity of tracing the history of nationalism in terms of Japanese Asianism and Pan-Turkist Pan-Islamist current as well as the Kemalist agenda of the new secular Turkish Republic. Topics include the exciting stories of political astors from teh Turkish world and their Jananese counterparts. Japanese and Turkish intellectuals diplomats intelligence agenst and merchants roamed across eurasia political borders participatign in the tumultuous events surrounding the rise of Japan the fall of the Romanov and Ottoman empires and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.