InhaltsangabeIntroduction Chapter I: Reconsidering Cultural Difference Erika Fischer-Lichte: Interweaving European and Japanese Cultures at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Japanese Guest-Tours in Europe Diego Pellecchia: The International Noh Institute of Milan: Transmission of Ethics and Ethics of Transmission in a Transnational Context Marumoto Takashi: Comedy and Laughter on the Japanese and German Stage: A Comparative Attempt Chapter II: Intertwined Threads of Reception James R. Brandon: 'Mussolini' in Kabuki: Notes and Translation Pia Schmitt: Early German Encounters with Japanese Performing Arts - On Hermann Bohner's Examination of No Andreas Regelsberger: The Rediscovery of Brecht's 'The Judith of Shimoda' Stanca Scholz-Cionca: Brecht Revisited: 'Yabuhara, the Blind Master Minstrel', by Inoue Hisashi Bonaventura Ruperti: Greek Tragedies in/and the Productions of Ninagawa Yukio Luciana Galliano: Japan and Contemporary Opera (in Italy) Donato Sartori: Masks: East and West Confronted Chapter III: Present Trends Niino Morihiro: Social Criticism in Japanese Theatre: The Dramatist Sakate Yoji and the Little Theatre Movement since the 1980s Peter Eckersall: Dreaming of the War in Shinjuku - Kawamura Takeshi and Heiner Müller's 'Hamletmachine' in Japan Thomas Oliver Niehaus: Directing in Japan Katja Centonze: Topoi of Performativity: Italian Bodies in Japanese Spaces/Japanese Bodies in Italian Spaces