No.173
FEATURE: The Korean Peninsula and Japanese Diplomacy
No.172
FEATURE: South Asia in Turmoil
No.171
FEATURE: JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONSHIP IN ITS 30TH YEAR
No.170
FEATURE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE COMING JOHANESBURG SUMMIT
No.169
FEATURE: The Middle East and Japanese Diplomacy
No.168
FEATURE: A Season for Learning from Europe
No.167
FEATURE: RECONSIDERING FOREIGN POLICY
No.166
FEATURE: RETURNING ODA TO ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE AS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
No.165
FEATURE: HOW TO RESOLVE THE REFUGEE PROBLEM
No.163
FEATURE: UNDERSTANDING ISLAM
No.162
FEATURE: WHAT IS FOREIGN POLICY?
No.173 FEATURE: The Korean Peninsula and Japanese Diplomacy
Round Table
The Vital Issue for Japan: Peace and Stability on the Korean Peninsula/Izumi Hajime/Tanaka Hitoshi/Yun Duk-min
Path to the Prime Minister’s Visit to North Korea and the Japan-DPRK Pyongyang Declaration /Hiramatsu Kenjii
ROK-Japan Relations in a New Phase/Oh Young-hwan
Emerging China, Stagnating Japan, and What About the Korean Economy?/Park Jung-dong
Framework for a Free Trade Agreement Between Japan and the ROK/Takewaka Keizo
Column Korean Peninsula Update
Japan-ROK Cultural Exchange/Kumagai Naohiro;K-Pop/Sakamoto Yuji; Court Music /Okeda Mariko;Ten Books on Korea/Ishizaka Kouichi;Films/Mihara Shigemi;
Contemporary Literature in North Korea/O Hyansuk
Ten New Novels on Korean Women/Hotei Toshihiro
Presidential Elections in the ROK/Tashiro Shunichiro
Reference: The History of Exchange since 1965
Interview Corner (56)A New Academic Community through Horizontal Communication/Mitani Taichiro
The Unknown History of Modern Japanese Diplomacy (4): Book Survivors/Takeuchi Haruhisa
Street Corners of the World: Prague
The Struggle against Flooding/Ohtaka Setsuko
Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (14)How to Better Yourself in the United States/Chano Junko
Twists and Turns in Japan’s 1930s Foreign Relations (3)Between Expansionism and the World Powers/Yatabe Atsuhiko
Visit to a University Seminar (48)
Seikei University: Tomita Takeshi
Photo and Essay: “Wardrobe Diplomacy” (2): Nelson Mandela and Brioni/Nakajima Wataru
Window on the World (92)/Fujiwara Sakuya
Lead Essays/Ogura Akira/Kamanaka Hitomi
The Currency Situation in East Asia (10)Challenges for the Twenty-first Century/Sakuraba Chihiro
Book Reviews/Sakai Tetsuya
From Our Readers
No.172 FEATURE: South Asia in Turmoil
12 Round Table
The Eternal and Ever-changing in India-Pakistan Relations/Kobayashi Shunji/Nagasaki Nobuko/Horimoto Takenori
22 September 11 and South Asia’s Crisis /Stephen P.Cohen/Meena S. Mallipeddi
30 Japan’s South Asia Diplomacy: Asian Peer or Global Interests? Yes, Both/Hikihara Takeshi
38 The Indian Economy: Is It Really the Giant Untapped Market of the Twenty-first Century?/Kondo Masanori
46 The Soft Power of World Allure/Ogawa Tadashi
52 The Contemporary History of South Asia in Postage Stamps/Kurosaki Takashi
58 Candor Needed to Solve Problems: An Account of the Struggle to Succeed in Business in India/Tomota Tomiya
62 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (13) The Indian Ambassador Style of Teaching English/Aftab Seth
3・74 New Series/Photo and Essay: ” Diplomacy in Wardrobe: Kofi Annan’s Suits/Nakajima Wataru
69 The Emperor and Empress Tour the Central and Eastern Europe/Karita Yoshio
82 Visit to Statues of Foreign Ministry Related Historical Figures (3): The Lost Portrait of Henry W. Denison/Takeuchi Haruhisa
88 Twists and Turns in Japan’s 1930s Foreign Relations (2)Siam’s Revolution/Yatabe Atsuhiko
1 Visit to a University Seminar (47)Obirin University: Okuno Katsuo
5 Window on the World (91)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 Lead Essays/Sakuma Roku/Aida Hirotsugu
10 Interview Corner (55) True Friends of the Japanese People in Uzbekistan/Nakayama Kyoko
78 The Currency Situation in East Asia (9) Indonesia: A Perspective on the Rupiah Exchange Rate/Akama Hiroshi
96 Book Reviews/Hoshino Toshiya
99 From the Readers
No.171 FEATURE: JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONSHIP IN ITS 30TH YEAR
12 Japan-China Relations at a Crossroads: Three Possible Scenarios/Wang Yizhou
16 Pursuing the New Japan-China Relations beyond the 1972 Systems/Kokubun Ryosei
24 Round Table /Understanding the Sources and Directions of Strength and Weakness/Oboshi Koji/Kato Chihiro/Soeya Yoshihide/Sato Shigekazu
34 Japanese ODA in China Opens Up the Future for the Two Countries/Watanabe Toshio
40 Assessing the China Threat: Implications for Japan/Robert G. Sutter
48 Kimura Takuya and Lu Xun: Japanese Soap on Chinese Campuses/Nakano Yoshiko/Wu Yongmei
51 Visits to the Events of “China Year”
55 Historical Materials/The China-Japan Joint Communique of 1972 Thirty Years of Bilateral Relations and V.I.P. Visits
60 New Series: Twists and Turns in Japan’s 1930s Foreign Relations: Japan-Thailand Relations in Cross-section./Yatabe Atsuhiko
67 COREPER, Controlling Behind-the-Scenes Force of the EU/Kurata Yasuo
72 Street Corners of the World: Oxford Learn from English-style Training of Lawyers /Taga Mikiko
82 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (12) This Is How Major Leaguers from Japan Are Learning English/Hasegawa Shigetoshi
1 Visit to a University Seminar (46)Hokkaido University: Yamanaka Akiko
3・92 Photo and Essay: “A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London” (12)/Suenobu Yoshiharu
5 Window on the World (90)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 Lead Essays/Mochida Naotake/Tsugami Toshiya
10 Interview Corner (54)
Demining: A Form of Assistance Suited to Japan/Patrick M. Blagden
76 Visit to Statues of Foreign Ministry Related Historical Figures (2)The Henry W. Denison Statue and a Noble Soul of the Meiji Era/Takeuchi Haruhisa
88 The Currency Situation in East Asia (8)Taiwan: Toward Currency Integrity/Sakuraba Chihiro
96 Book Reviews/Fukagawa Yukiko
99 From the Readers
No.170 FEATURE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE COMING JOHANESBURG SUMMIT
10 Interview Corner (53) Japan’s Leadership Role in Development Policy/Fujita Kimio
12 Making WSSD a Historical Turning Point / Kofi Annan
14 Round Table / What Japan Should Do for Realizing Sustainable Development?/Kohama Hirohisa, Matsumoto Jin’ichi, Yuge Akiko, Ishikawa Kaoru (moderator)
26 For Better Development: The Aims of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) /Abdou Aziz Sow
32 Let’s Do Something about the WSSD Crisis /Akasaka Kiyotaka
38 From Kananaskis to Johannesburg: What the G-8 Summits Have Discussed/Hosono Shin’ichi
44 Approaching a “Whole” Solution to the Issue:The OECD Contribution/Kondo Seiichi
50 How Afghanistan Has Changed/Komano Kin’ichi
56 NGO Projects in the Health Field: Not Substitute for but Precursor of Government Programs/Ikegami Kiyoko
60 Glossary/Chronology: “Sustainable Development” in Brief
63 The FIFA World Cup 2002: The Party Is Not Over/Embassy officials (Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Germany, Korea, Turkey, U.K.), with Nukazawa Kazuo (moderator)
69 Former J League Players Zico and Littbarski Publicize Japan!
70 New Series:Visit to Statues of Foreign Ministry Related Historical Figures (1)The Aura of the Mutsu Munemitsu Statue/Takeuchi Haruhisa
76 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (11) What It Would Take for a Japanese MBA to Surpass Harvard/Takeuchi Hirotaka
82 The Currency Situation in East Asia (7)China: Issues Involving Renminbi Yuan Rates/Akama Hiroshi
1 Visit to a University Seminar (45)Takushoku University: Yoshida Tsuneaki
3・92 Photo and Essay: “A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London” (11) /Suenobu Yoshiharu
5 Window on the World (89)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 Lead Essays/Menju Toshihiro/Hayashi Shingo
86 American Stories from the U.S. Constitution (15)The Civil War and the Constitution/Agawa Naoyuki
96 Book Reviews/Sakai Tetsuya
98 From the Readers
No.169
Special
Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (10) Nurturing Thinking Powers is the Starting Point of Learning/H.I.H. Princess Takamado
FEATURE: The Middle East and Japanese Diplomacy
Has the Tunnel Collapsed?: Reflections on the Middle East Peace Process/Nogami Yoshiji
Round Table/Understanding the Post-Sept. 11 World: The ExpandingMiddle East/Sakai Keiko/Sadamori Daiji/Tateyama Ryoji, and Ando Hiroyasu
A Local View of Japan’s Assistance to the Middle East Peace Process From Palestine: As a Member of the Global Village/Muhammad I. Shtayyeh
From Israel: There Is a Unique Role for Japan to Play /Akiva Eldar
U.S. Policy toward the Middle East/Ikeda Akifumi
Data: The ABCs of the Middle East Peace Process/Nakashima Isamu
Special from the British Journal GRANTA What We Think of America/Michael Ignatieff / Doris Lessing / Ramanchandra Guha / Ian Buruma
Special Contribution: Obituary Flora Lewis’s Spirit as a Professional /Tomoda Seki
Two Weeks with a North Korean Family Seeking Asylum/Kondo Seiichi
Street Corners of the World: Afghanistan Kabul Revisited/Hiraga Keiki
Visit to a University Seminar (44)Sophia University: Kawaguchi Hirose Kazuko
Photo and Essay: “A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London” (10)/Suenobu Yoshiharu
Window on the World (88)/Fujiwara Sakuya
Lead Essays/Chiba Shigeo/Miyaji Naoko
Interview Corner (52)
The International Perspective is Needed in Health and Medical Services /Kita Etsuko
American Stories from the U.S. Constitution (14)Path to the Civil War, Part Two/Agawa Naoyuki
Book Reviews/Hoshino Toshiya
From the Readers
No.168 FEATURE: A Season for Learning from Europe
10 Interview Corner (51) Why Europe Now?/Arima Tatsuo
12 The New Era Calls for a “Common Security Policy” /Javier Solana Madariaga
19 The European Union: Reluctant Power?/William Wallace
26 Round Table /What Japan Can Learn from EU Innovations/Jitsu Tetsuya/Sasae Ken’ichiro /Tanaka Toshiro
36 Introducing the “Multilateral and Divisible Republican Form of Government”: Sovereignty and Foreign Policy in the EU/Endo Ken
42 Issues Raised in the French Presidential Election: The Bright and Dark Sides of European Integration/Yamaguchi Shoko
48 The European Central Bank as a Symbol of Integration/Goto Kenji
52 Why Japan Joins Hands with the EU?/Shin’yo Takahiro (Column: Action Plan for Japan-EU Cooperation)
60 My Way of Eliminating the “Knowledge Deficit”: Getting to Know the Unknown About Europe/Kurata Yasuo
66 Japan-Europe Relations in Figures
72 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (9) Master English If You Want to Excel in Science/Nakamura Shuji
82 American Stories from the U.S. Constitution (13)Path to the Civil War, Part One/Agawa Naoyuki
88 Honors Among Soldiers/Joseph L. Galloway
1 Visiti to a University Seminar (43)Otsuma Women’s University: Watanabe Yorizumi
3・92 Photo and Essay: “A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London” (9)/Suenobu Yoshiharu
5 Window on the World (87)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 Lead Essays/Kunimatsu Takaji/Hirota Yasuyuki
71 Careful Business (4)Using Universities/Michael Phillips
78 The Currency Situation in East Asia (6)Malaysia: What Is Capital Control?/Akama Hiroshi
96 Book Reviews/FukagawaYukiko
98 From the Readers
No.167 FEATURE: RECONSIDERING FOREIGN POLICY
12 From the Indian Ocean Alliance to Distant Afghanistan/Okamoto Yukio
20 Revising Foreign Policy and Reforming the Foreign Ministry:To Rectify the Errors of Politician-led Diplomacy /Kitaoka Shin’ichi
27 What It Takes to Be a Diplomat/Takeuchi Yukio
32 Japan’s Diplomatic Determination: A Summary of the Afghan Peace Conference/Oshima Shotaro
38 The Dawn of Public Diplomacy: Today Is the Time for and “Integrated” Diplomacy /Wada Jun
44 The Keys to Diplomacy for the New Era: The Media and Foreign Policy as a Domestic Issue/Hironaka Yoshimichi
50 Tony Blair’s Vision of a New World Order and Britain’s New Role/Hosoya Yuichi
56 Shrewd Putin Diplomacy: Russia Finds Its Ideal Leader/Ikuma Mikio
61 The Job of a Consul /Fukuya Hiroshi
66 Round Table
The Career Diplomat’s Dilemmas and Challenges /Otaka Masato/Kijima Yoshiko/Shinada Teruhiko/ Mizutori Mami/Yazama Hideyuki
76 Reflections on Ethnic Issues (12)Southeast Asia (final): The Complex Question of Nationalism and Ethnicity/Shiraishi Takashi
82 Street Corners of the World: Taiwan J Pop Popularity is Tops/Aoki Akiko
86 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (8)
International Community Needs Facilitators Who Speak English/Nagashima Yasuharu
1 Visit to a University Seminar (42)Waseda University: Urata Shujiro
3・92 Photo and Essay :”A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London”(8)/Suenobu Yoshiharu
5 Windows on the World (86)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 Lead Essays/Yatabe Atsuhiko/Nakajima Wataru
10 Interview Corner (50)FIFA World Cup Greater National Project than Olympics/Okano Shun’ichiro
96 Book Reviews/Sakai Tetsuya
99 From the Readers
No.166 FEATURE: RETURNING ODA TO ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE AS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
12 Special Round Table
Now Is the Time to Fill the Diplomacy Vacuum / Kojima Akira/ Miyauchi Yoshihiko/Taida Hideya/Tanaka Akihiko
(Supplementary Materials, “Ten Reforms for an Open Foreign Ministry”)
24 Global Trends and Japanese Economic Cooperation Reform:Why Japan Is Not a Trend Setter/Ohno Izumi/Ohno Ken’ichi
32 Round Table
Why ODA Is Important for Japan
/Chino Keiko/Sunagawa Makoto/Tanino Sakutaro/Watanabe Toshio
42 My Response to Calls for Review/Nishida Tsuneo
49 Discussion
The NGO-ODA Interface/Kinbara Kazuyuki/Takahashi Michiko/Akimoto Yoshitaka (moderator)
56 Columns: From the Scene of Development Assistance
Kosovo: The Japanese Flag in Kosovo /Okamura Yoshifumi
East Timor: Nation Building Starts with Training People/Takahashi Akira
United Nations: Toward Principled Assistance /Ueki Yasuhiro
62 Japan’s ODA in Statistical Data
66 Reflections on Ethnic Issues
Southeast Asia (2): The Question of Ethnicity/Shiraishi Takashi
72 President George W. Bush Visit to Japan: Toward an Action-oriented U.S.-Japan Alliance/Miyajima Akio
76 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (7)Enhance Your English Ability with Chameleon Communication /Sasaki Kaori
86 The American Stories from the U.S. Constitution (12)Black Slaves and the American Constitution/Agawa Naoyuki
1 Visit to a University Seminar (41)Doshisha University: Murata Koji
3・92 Photo and Essay :”A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London”(7)/Suenobu Yoshiharu
5 Windows on the World (85)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 Lead Essays/Matsuo Fumio/Miura Naoyuki
10 Interview Corner (49)
Society Should Be Weightier Than the State, Public Interest Weightier Than National Interest/Hayashi Yujiro
82 The Currency Situation in East Asia (5) Republic of Korea: ROK Invites Foreign Capital/Akama Hiroshi
96 Book Reviews/Hoshino Toshiya
98 From the Readers/Kohno Yohei
No.165 FEATURE: HOW TO RESOLVE THE REFUGEE PROBLEM
12 UNHCR Wins Support for Its Quality Work/Ruud Lubbers
14 Special Interview
The Unfinished Tasks of the “Abandoned Country”: After the International Conference on Afghanistan’s Reconstruction/Ogata Sadako/Sasae Ken’ichiro(interviewer)
23 The “Gained Decade”: The Japanese Humanitarian Aid Diplomacy/Takeda Isami
30 Kabul Immediately After the Taliban: What Do the War Victims Want?/Jakob Kellenberger/Morimoto Seiji (interviewer)
34 Round Table What We Can See at the Front Lines of Refugee Assistance /Asaba Shun’ichiro/ Fujiwara Ken/ Kumaoka Michiya/ Ohnishi Kensuke
46 The Forgotten Plight of Internally Displaced People: What the International Community Can Do for Them /Ohshima Kenzo
52 Twentieth Anniversary of the Refugee Convention /Aiboshi Koichi
57 The Condition of Japan’s Acceptance of Refugees
60 From Geneva, the Humanitarian Capital: A Day in the Life of a Secretary to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees /Kishimori Hajime
Essays from the Front Lines of Refugee Aid
33 Tajikistan/Mokuo Yukie
45 Myanmar/Ohiwa Yutaka
63 Iran/Odashima Toshiro
64 DATA For a Better Understanding of Refugee Problems
70 Reflections on Ethnic Issues
Southeast Asia (1): Nationalism/Shiraishi Takashi
76 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (6)
How to Learn English as a Business Tool/Hanawa Yoshikazu
84 The Currency Situation in East Asia (4) Singapore: The Policy of Non-internationalization of Currency /Sakuraba Chihiro
88 The American Stories from the U.S. Constitution (11)Black Slaves and the American Constitution/Agawa Naoyuki
1 Visit to a University Seminar (40)
Kobe University: Iokibe Makoto
3・94 Photo and Essay :”A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London”(6)/Suenobu Yoshiharu
5 Windows on the World (84)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 Lead Essays/Yamamoto Taketoshi/Osa Yukie
10 Interview Corner (48) “Comprehensive Support” Should be the Motto for Japan-China Relations/Luo Yiwen
82 Letter from Delhi (final) Visits to Sacred Sites in Buddhism /Hirabayashi Hiroshi
98 Book Reviews/Yasuoka Haruko
101 From the Readers
No.164 FEATURE: FIFTH ANNIVERSARYOF HONG KONG’S REVERSION TO CHINA: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE “ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS” FORMULA?
10 INTERVIEW CORNER (47)Secrets to Hong Kong’s World’s Greatest Economic Freedom / Cheung Man Yee
12 The Process of Reintegration and Unification with China: Social Changes and Political Development in Hong Kong / Tanigaki Mariko
18 Prospects for a “Greater Hong Kong” : Toward Acceptance of “Chinarization” and Unification / Inagaki Kiyoshi
24 DIALOGUE How to Cement Ties: Future Images of the Unique City of Hong Kong and Japan/Donald Tsang / Umezu Itaru
30 ROUND TABLE How Should Japan View Hong Kong: Getting Along with China in the WTO / Ishii Jiro / Korogi Ichiro / Tanaka Hitoshi/Tamura Hideo
40 The “One Country, Two Systems” Model in the Management of Criminal Judicature / Shikita Minoru
46 The Beijing Perspective: No Trouble Means Good Leadership /Nakai Yoshifumi
49 The London Perspective: U.K. Ties are Strong but Not Obtrusive /Michael Yahuda
52 “The Landscape of Hong Kong and the Vigor of Its People”/Saeki Satoshi1 / Fujii Shozo
56 Currency Situation in East Asia (3) Hong Kong Dollar: Unknown Episodes of the Fixed Exchange Rate System / Sakuraba Chihiro
60 DATA Hong Kong Today in Statistical Data
SECOND FEATURE: SCIENCE AND DIPLOMACY
61 Japan Interpreted by Science / Michigami Hisashi
66 Japanese Private-sector Technology’s Central Role in Intellectual International Contribution / Shibata Tomoatsu
74 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (5)Bicultural People Will Head the Future /Ito Joichi
80 Street Corners of the World: Kuwait War and Women Issues: Why They Didn’t Flower after the Gulf War /Uchida Yuka
84 The American Stories from the U.S. Constitution (10)Black Slaves and the American Constitution / Agawa Naoyuki
1 Visit to a University Seminar (3)
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies: Sawada Yukari
3・90 Photo and Essay :”A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London” (5) / Suenobu Yoshiharu
5 Windows on the World (83)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 LEAD ESSAYS Fujimura Takayoshi/Kiriyama Hideki
70 CHRONOLOGY After Terrorism
72 Letter from Delhi (11) A Repository of Historic Assets/Hirabayashi Hiroshi
90 How Experts Master a Language (10)Portuguese/Komuro Chiho
92 Book Reviews/Sado Akihiro
99 From the Readers
No.163 FEATURE: UNDERSTANDING ISLAM
10 Interview Corner (46)Japan’s Stance on the Arabia/Kobayakawa Toshihiko
12 Dialogue
Religion Without Hatred: Islam’s Foundations of Tolerance and Peace
/Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi/Suto Takaya
18 Round Table
Why the Connection to Terrorism?: For Dialogue Among Civilizations
/Tanaka Koichiro/Degawa Nobuhisa/Nagasawa Eiji/Yamauchi Masayuki
30 Japan’s Policy toward Islam: A Proposal for Review of the “Dialogue” Policy/Katakura Kunio
37 Terrorists and Islam/Fujiwara Kazuhiko
42 Islam in the World
1) Middle East: The Demise of Terrorism/Fukuda Sadashi
2) Central Asia: How Extremism Breeds/Miyata Osamu
3) Iran: Behind Stability/Suzuki Hitoshi
4) U.S.: How to overcome Prejudice/Notoji Masako
5) Indonesia: Religious Factors Indispensable to Political Analysis/Miichi Ken
67 Needed: An Ibn Khardoon for the 21sth Century /Morimoto Kosei
75 Reference: What is Islam?/Kosugi Yasushi
78 Beyond Essentialism/Mojtaba Sadria
80 Watching Currency in East Asia (2)
China: What Will Happen to the Renminbi Yuan/Akama Hiroshi
86 Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (4)To Keep Passing on My View of What Is Interesting/Hitomi Noriaki
1 Visit to a University Seminar (38)Muroran Institute of Technology: Kanno Koko
90 Photo and Essay :A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London” (4)/Suenobu Yoshiharu
5 Windows on the World (82)/Fujiwara Sakuya
8 Lead Essays/Suzuki Hiroyuki/Chino Keiko
84 Letter from Delhi (10) Chandra Bose /Hirabayashi Hiroshi
96 Book Reviews/Nakamoto Yoshihiko
99 From the Readers
No.162 FEATURE: WHAT IS FOREIGN POLICY?
Special Lead Essays: On Diplomacy
/Tatai Yoshio/Yoshida Shin’ichi/Ishii Yoneo/Kosaka Setsuzo/Akashi Yasushi/Joseph S. Nye, Jr./Wang Yizhou
How Solid Is Japan’s Foreign Policy?/Tanaka Akihiko
Dialogue
The Paradigm Shift from “Freedom” to “Safety”?/Okamoto Yukio/Nogami Yoshiji
Round Table
Reviewing the Foreign Policy of Major Countries
/Iwama Yoko/Kokubun Ryosei/Nakanishi Hiroshi/Murata Koji
Fly a “Universall” Flag in Foreign Policy/Nukazawa Kazuo
SPECIAL: AFTER THE SEPT. 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS (3) The Impact of September 11 on Foreign Policy in East Asia/Watanabe Taizo
Chronology
New Series: Currency Situation in East Asia (1)Stop the Flow of Funds to Terrorists/Sakuraba Chihiro
Visit to a University Seminar (37
Gakushuin University: Inoue Toshikazu
Interview Corner (45)
Gear Public Works Investment to the Information Era/Aoyama Yasushi
Photo and Essay :”A Century after Natsume Soseki’s Sojourn in London” (3)/Suenobu Yoshiharu
Windows on the World (81)/Fujiwara Sakuya
Letter from Delhi (9) Kashmir /Hirabayashi Hiroshi
Encouragement of Careful Business (2)
“Priority”/Michael Phillips
Talks with Kinoshita Reiko: The Joy of English (3)
Cultivating Immersion at an Early Stage Is the Key toImprovement/Michael Bostwick
The American Stories from the U.S. Constitution (9)Black Slaves and the American Constitution/Agawa Naoyuki
How Experts Master a Language (9)
Dutch/Akashi Miyoko
Book Reviews/Yasuoka Haruko
Contents in 2001
From the Readers
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