Historiographical reflections /Richard W. Leopold -- Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Japanese / Norman A. Graebner -- Cabinet, emperor, and senior statesman / Imai Seiichi -- The role of the Department of State / James C. Thomson, Jr. -- The role of the United States Embassy in Tokyo / Akira Iriye -- The role of the Foreign Ministry / Usui Katsumi -- The role of Japan's Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Washington, 1940-1941 / Hosoya Chihiro -- The role of the War Department and the army / Russell F. Weigley -- The role of the Japanese Army / Fujiwara Akira -- The role of the United States Navy / Waldo H. Heinrichs, Jr. -- The Japanese Navy and the United States / Asada Sadao -- The role of the Commerce and Treasury Departments / Lloyd Gardner -- The role of the Finance Ministry / Yamamura Katsuro -- The role of the United States Congress and political parties / Wayne S. Cole -- The role of the Diet and political parties / Misawa Shigeo and Ninomiya Saburo -- The role of U.S. business / Mira Wilkins -- An inquiry into the problem of importing American capital into Manchuria: a note on Japanese-American relations, 1931-1941 / Cho Yukio -- The activities of the Japan Economic Federation / Nakamura Hideichiro -- The role of private groups in the United States / Warren I. Cohen -- The role of liberal non-governmental organizations in Japan / Ito Takashi -- U.S. press coverage of Japan, 1931-1941 / Ernest R. May -- The press and public opinion in Japan, 1931-1941 / Kakegawa Tomiko -- Two historians of the Far eastern policy of the United States: Tyler Dennett and A, Whitney Griswold / Dorothy Borg -- Changes in Japan's international position and the response of Japanese intellectuals: trends in Japanese studies of Japan's foreign relations, 1931-1941 / Mitani Taichiro -- The structure of Japanese-American relations in the 1930s / Mushakoji Kinhide.