Anti-Japanese nativism drew strength from a perceived international threat absent in anti-Chinese feeling.

Evidence

In this respect too the anti-Japanese movement contrasts with the older anti-Chinese movement. Neither China nor any other nation posed a direct, international threat to the secure and isolated America of the seventies and eighties. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2306

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s hypothesis that the manufactured enemy takes different forms (racial vs. geopolitical) depending on what solidarity needs. — connects to: The US drew anti-Western hostility without territorial colonialism; Anti-Chinese violence far exceeded any anti-European nativism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 151
• SEED: The shift from a racialized enemy (Chinese laborers) to a nation-state rival (Japan as world power) is an angle for how threat categories migrate.

Broader Connections

• The US drew anti-Western hostility without territorial colonialism #complicates (0.75)