Hiroko Takeda & Mark Williams
1. History: War Memory and Japan's "Postwar"(Elyssa Faison)
2. Politics: after the Demise of the "1955 System"(Gill Steel)
3. The Law in Japan(Giorgio Fabio Colombo)
4. The Japanese Economy(Franz Waldenberger)
5. Work and Employment: Inside, outside and beyond the Lifetime Employment Model (Steffen Heinrich & Jun Imai)
6. Civil Society in Japan(Mary Alice Haddad)
7. Structures and Dynamics of Japan's Urban-Rural Relationship(Thomas Feldhoff)
8. Japan's New Immigration: Gap in Admission Policy and Diversity in Socio-economic Integration'(David Chiavacci)
9. Discursive Politics of Gender in Japan(Hiroko Takeda)
10. Family and Demographic Issues in Japan(Mary C. Brinton)
11. Popular Imagination in Japan(Rumi Sakamoto)
12. Japan's International Relations(Christopher W. Hughes & Misato Matsuoka)