Chapter 7 examines German nonfiction’s portrayals of Japan. Missionaries, scholars, travelers, and political commentators wrote on different aspects of Japan, but they shared fundamental respect and appreciation for Japanese successes. Japan’s perceived significance for Germany prompted them to study the country and share their findings with readers. Upheavals in Germany affected the quantity, quality, and type of publications. Several authors who wrote about Japan had no firsthand exposure, or if they did, linguistic and practical barriers permitted only superficial generalizations. Thus works from the 1920s often seem indistinguishable from those a decade later, and many relied on stereotypes to depict Japan as a “country of juxtaposition.” This descriptive trope allowed authors to selectively admire Japan. From the early 1930s, transnational Nazi writers highlighted features of Japan that suited their ideology, such as willingness to use force and defiance of the international order. Under the Third Reich’s unconventional diplomatic posture, they advocated and even practiced German-Japanese convergence in their publications.