INCLUDES PAPERS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED AT AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM HELD IN KYOTO, JAPAN NOV. 27-30, 1975.

Introduction :the historian's tasks and responsibilities / D.C. Watt -- Roots of Cold War doctrine : the esoteric and the exoteric / Nagai Yonosuke -- American policy-makers, public opinion, and the outbreak of the Cold War, 1945-50 / Walter LaFeber -- United States and the Cold War : the Cold War era in American history / Aruga Tadashi -- Britain and the Cold War in the Far East, 1945-58 / D.C. Watt -- Soviet Far Eastern policy, 1945-50 : Stalin's goals in Korea / Robert M. Slusser -- Genesis of the Cold War : confrontation over Poland, 1941-44 / Ito Takayuki -- Sino-Soviet confrontation in historical perspective / Nakajima Mineo -- Cold War and China / Okabe Tatsumi -- Mao, China, and the Cold War / Allen S. Whiting -- Korea in American politics, strategy, and diplomacy, 1945-50 / John Lewis Gaddis -- Domestic roots of the Korean War / Okonogi Masao -- Who set the stage for the Cold War in Southeast Asia? / Yano Toru -- United States and the anticolonial revolutions in South East Asia, 1945-50 / George McT. Kahin -- Cominform and Southeast Asia / Tanigawa Yoshihiko -- Continuities in U.S.-Japanese relations, 1941-49 / Akira Iriye -- Cold War and U.S.-Japan economic cooperation / Yamamoto Mitsuru.