Introduction to Japan and the United States / Williamson Murray and Tomoyuki Ishizu -- U.S. strategic planning, 1919-1939 : from innocence to improvisation / F.G. Hoffman -- The strategy of the maritime nation : from Yukichi Fukuzawa to Shigeru Yoshida / Kitaoka Shinichi -- The quest for international justice and Asianism in a "New order in East Asia" : Fumimaro Konoe and his vision of the world / Shoji Jun'Ichiro -- Total war, modernism, and the final war with the United States : Ishiwara Kanji and his view on war, and on grand and military strategy / Tomoyuki Ishizu -- U.S. strategy and leadership in World War II : the problem of a two-front strategy / Williamson Murray -- Diplomatic strategy of a defeated nation : Yoshida Shigeru and his successors / Hiroshi Nakanishi -- A strategy by accident : U.S. policy in the Cold War, 1945-1972 / Richard Hart Sinnreich -- The "basic defense force concept" as strategy / Narushige Michishita.