My Encounter with Japan: An Autobiographical Introduction PART I: ENIGMA OF THE EMPERORS
1. Divinity and Gender: The Riddle of the Japanese Emperors
2. Emperor and Religion in Twentieth-Century Japan
3. BOOK REVIEW: Author: Kiyoko Takeda. Title: The Dual Image of the Japanese Emperor
4. BOOK REVIEW: Author: Daikichi Irokawa. Title: The Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan
5. BOOK REVIEW: Author: Mikiso Hane. Title: Emperor Hirohito and His Chief Aide-de-Camp: The Honj6 Diary PART II: THE MEIJI RESTORATION: BETWEEN THE WEST AND CHINA 'Restoration', 'Emperor', 'Diet', 'Prefecture', or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages The Meiji Restoration: Japan's Attempt to Inherit China PART III: THE DOOMED REBELLION
8. The February 26 Affair: Politics of a Military Insurrection
9. Prince Chichibu and the February 26 Rebellion
10. Myth and Reality in Japan of the 1930s PART IV: INSTITUTIONS AND DILEMMAS IN WARTIME JAPAN
11. The Pacific War: Intelligence Failures and Counter[1]Productive Secrecy
12. Wartime Japan: A Military Dictatorship
13. Constraints on Totalitarianism in Japan
14. Universities and Students in Wartime Japan
15. Friend or Foe: The Ambivalent Images of the US and China in Wartime Japan
16. Why Magic Did Not Work
17. BOOK REVIEW: Author: Yoshitake Oka. Title: Konoe Fumimaro: A Political Biography
18. BOOK REVIEW: Author: John W. Dower. Title: War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War PART V: TERROR, CONFUCT AND DIPLOMACY
19. Patterns of Violence: Political Terrorism in Prewar Japan
20. The Japanese Experience in Termination of Wars
21. Victors without Vanquished: A Japanese Model of Conflict Resolution
22. BOOK REVIEW:
1. Author: Ian Nish (ed.). Title: Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919-1952
2. Author: Roger Buckley. Title: Occupation Diplomacy: Britain, the United States and Japan, 1945-52 PART VI: CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION
23. The Princess of the Dragon Palace: A New Shinto Sect is Born
24. Management by Consensus: The Historical Background
25. The Political Tradition of Japan and its Impact on the Development of Japanese Democracy PART VII: JAPAN, THE JEWS AND ISRAEL
26. The Jews and the Japanese
27. The Legend of the Japanese as the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
28. The Jewish Role in the Russo-Japanese War
29. Japan's Support of Zionism after the First World War Zionism Stirs Messianic Hopes in Japan
31. The Birth of Japanese Anti-Semitism
32. The Abstract Jewish Demon
33. The Flourishing Demon: Japan in the Role of the Jews?
34. The Japanese and the Jews: The Two Societies that Surprised the World
35. Japan and Israel: The Relationship that Withstood Pressures
36. The Jews and the Japanese: Cultural Traits and Common Values