1. Britain and Japan, similarities, differences, and the future / Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook -- 2. Japan and Britain in a historical-future perspective / Sakamoto Yoshikazu -- 3. The future of Anglo-America, the changing relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States / Andrew Gamble -- 4. Japan-United States relations in the postwar years, the dilemma and problems of postwar Japanese diplomacy and their implications for the East Asian order / Kan Hideki -- 5. Britain and Germany, defining the European order in the contemporary era / Christoph Bluth -- 6. Japan and China, new regionalism and the emerging East Asian order / Takahara Akio -- 7. The United Kingdom and the euro, exchange rate stability but at what price? / Brian Ardy -- 8. The East Asian economies after the financial crisis, a role for the Japanese yen? / Takahashi Wataru -- 9. A Braveheart renaissance? Scottish identity and politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Eberhard Bort -- 10. Beyond hondo, devolution and Okinawa / ๅOta Masahide -- 11. London as a global financial centre, problems and prospects in the new era / Randall D. Germain -- 12. Narrating a 'global city' for 'new Tokyoites', economic crisis and urban 'boosterism' / Machimura Takashi -- 13. Japan and Britain, a common agenda for the twenty-first century? / Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook