Volume Introduction, Orientalism and the Study of Japan, The People in History: Recent Trends in Japanese Historiography, Toward a History of Twentieth-Century Japan, The Useful War, Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation, Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: Missed Opportunities, Little-Known Near Disasters, and Modern Memory, The Mushroom Cloud and National Psyches: Japanese and American Perspectives of the A-Bomb Decision, 1945-1995, Reflections on the Occupation of Japan, American Democratization Policy for Occupied Japan: Correcting the Revisionist Version, A Rejoinder, The Japanese Constitution: Child of the Cold War, U.S. Policy in Post-War Japan: The Retreat from Liberalism, The Debate on Subjectivity in Postwar Japan: Foundations of Modernism as a Political Critique, Party Politics and the Japanese Labor Movement: Rengo's New Political Force, The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan, Japan: The End of One-Party Dominance, The Unraveling of Japan Inc.: Multinationals as Agents of Change, Japan's Non-Revolution, Japan's Diet Resolution on World War Two: Keeping History at Bay, A Journalist's Perspective on Postwar Japan, Acknowledgments