Machine derived contents note: Figures -- Preface -- Introduction to the English language edition -- Acknowledgements -- Note on conventions -- -- 1 Between East and West -- 2 Culture of the East, Culture of the West -- 3 An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context -- 4 A New World Map of Civilization: A Search for a Comparative Theory of Civilization -- 5 Japan in Ecological History -- 6 Travels in Southeast Asia: An Ecological View of History, Continued -- 7 The Fate of the Arab People -- 8 Traces of India in Southeast Asia -- 9 The Countries of the 'Mediant' -- 10 From Thailand to Nepal: Scholarship, Arts, Religion -- 11 Methodological Notes on Comparative Religion -- 12 The Ocean and Japanese Civilization -- -- Comments -- Notes -- Index