During the 1980s, when Japan increased its investment in the American market, the world witnessed a revival of the rhetoric of U.S.-Japanese racial confrontation. In Trans-Pacific Racisms, Yukiko Koshiro argues that this perceived economic aggression awoke the dormant racism that lay beneath the deceptively smooth cooperation between the two cultures. With access to previously unexplored sources in both Japanese and English, this book offers a truly international and cross-cultural study of history and international relations.