1. Overview / Gilbert Rozman, Kazuhiko Togo and Joseph P. Ferguson -- 2. Japanese strategic thought toward Asia in the 1980s / Takashi Inoguchi -- 3. Japan's strategic thinking toward Asia in the first half of the 1990s / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- 4. Japan's strategic thinking in the second half of the 1990s / Kazuhiko Togo -- 5. Japanese strategy under Koizumi / T. J. Pempel -- 6. Changing Japanese strategic thinking toward China / Ryosei Kokubun -- 7. Japanese strategic thinking toward Taiwan / Ming Wan -- 8. Japanese strategic thinking toward Korea / Cheol Hee Park -- 9. Japanese strategic thinking toward Russia / Joseph P. Ferguson -- 10. Japan's strategic thinking toward Central Asia / Akio Kawato -- 11. Japanese strategic thinking on regionalism / Gilbert Rozman