Idea of Showa / Carol Gluck -- Showa era (1926-1989) / Masataka Kosaka -- Useful war / John W. Dower -- People who invented the mechanical nightingale / Chalmers Johnson -- Japan meets the United States for the second time / Makoto Iokibe -- Occupation-Some reflections / Herbert Passin -- Diplomacy and the military in Showa Japan / Shinichi Kitaoka -- Showa economic experience / Edward J. Lincoln -- High culture in the Showa period / J. Thomas Rimer

1. Japan -- History -- Showa period
2. 1926-1989