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Pt. I: Political structure of North Korea. Characteristics and viability. Koh Byung Chul: The North Korean political system under Kim Jong Il. A comparative perspective. - S. 29-58. Wada, H.: The structure and political culture of the Kim Jong Il regime. Its novelty and difficulties. - S. 59-82. Pt. II: Economic crisis and prospects for reform in North Korea. Kim Woon Keun: Food problem and agricultural reform in North Korea. - S. 85-106. Chun Hong-tack: The second economy in North Korea. - S. 107-135. Pt. III: Prospects for reform and social change in North Korea. Suh Jae Jean: Economic origins of the socio-political decline in North Korea. - S. 139-158. Lee Shin-wha: North Koreans at refugee risk. Victims of nature or politics? - S. 159-196. Pt. IV: The two Koreas in the post-cold war period. Kihl Young Whan: The two Koreas under new leadersip. Challenges and prospects. - S. 199-232. Cha, V. D.: The problem of post-cold war policy templates and North Korea. - S. 233-257. Pt. V: Foreign policy of North Korea. Kim Kyu-Ryoon: North Korea-U.S. relations. Ambiguities and uncertainties. - S. 261-280. Shigemura, T.: Japan and North Korea. The policy making process of Japanese diplomacy as a "diet policy" (kokkai taisaku). - S. 281-292

The security implications of the end of the Cold War took longer to be appreciated in East Asia than in Europe, but by the mid-1990s loomed large. The two distinctively Japanese dimensions to the debate are the future of the US-Japan Security Treaty (whose abrogation was urged by prominent American voices in the pages of Foreign Affairs in 1995), and the closely-related questions of Japan's own military posture, including its future contribution to the United Nations (on which it aspired to a permanent Security Council seat). The debate on revision of the constitution of 1946 entered a new phase as a result of the changed international circumstances of the 1990s. Whereas in the established Cold War debate on constitutional revision, 'conservatives' favoured a more central role to the emperor and overt state possession of military forces, and the Socialist and Communist parties clung to a strict 'defend the constitution' line (often interpreted to mean unarmed neutrality), after 1990 attention focused on the need for Japan to maximise its contribution to the construction of a New World Order, and on whether the existing constitutional arrangements were appropriate or needed revision to that end. Rethinking on both 'conservative' and 'socialist' sides was profound and for the first time a narrow majority in public opinion surveys came to favour revision. The document which follows was written by a group of prominent Japanese scholars of law, history and politics, who attempt to recast the traditional 'constitutional defence' position in such a way as to develop a positive, while distinctively 'pacifist' vision for Japan. Their formula calls for Japan to adopt a 'Basic Peace Law' to complement the constitution, and to play a greatly expanded international role, involving a gradual renegotiation of the US-Japan Security Treaty. It was published in 1993 and 1994 in the monthly journal Sekai, published by the Iwanami publishing group, and is here presented in English translation for the first time.

Introduction : The San Francisco System and Its Legacies in the Asia-Pacific / KIMIE HARA -- Korea and Japan : The Dokdo/Takeshima Problem / SEOKWOO LEE -- Russia and Japan : The Algorithm of the Kuriles/Northern Territories Problem / KONSTANTIN SARKISOV -- Japan and China: Senkaku/Diaoyu and the Liuqiu/Ryukyu Problem / UNRYU SUGANUMA -- The South China Sea Dispute : A Review of History and Prospects for Dispute Settlement / NONG HONG -- The San Francisco Peace Treaty and "Korea" / DONG-CHOON KIM -- Taiwan's Sovereignty Status : The Neglected Taipei Treaty / MAN-HOUNG LIN -- The San Francisco System at Sixty : The Okinawa Angle / GAVAN MCCORMACK -- The Japanese Military "Comfort Women" Issue and the San Francisco System / HIROFUMI HAYASHI -- The Cold War, the San Francisco System, and Indigenous Peoples / SCOTT HARRISON -- From the Margins and Beyond : Racism, the San Francisco System and Asian Canadians / JOHN PRICE -- The San Francisco System : Past, Present, Future / JOHN W. DOWER -- Historical Legacies and Regional Integration / HARUKI WADA -- Preparing Ideas for the Future : Envisioning a Multilateral Settlement / KIMIE HARA -- Epilogue / MARK SELDEN.