Rise and fall --Roman questions: American empire and the Kyoto school -- Revisionism: the end of white America in Japan studies -- The decay of Pacific war orthodoxy -- Philosophy and the Pacific war: Imperial Japan and the making of a post-white world -- Scholarship or propaganda: Neo-Marxism and the decay of Pacific war orthodoxy -- Wartime Japan as it really was: the Kyoto school's struggle against Tojo (1941-44) -- In defence of the Kyoto school -- Taking Kyoto philosophy seriously -- Racism and the black legend of the Kyoto school: translating Tanabe's The logic of the species -- When is a philosopher a moral monster?: Tanabe versus Heidegger versus Marcuse -- Nazism and the crises of the Kyoto school -- Heidegger, Nazism and the Farías affair: the European origins of the Kyoto school crises -- Heidegger and the wartime Kyoto school: after Farías, the first paradigm crisis (1987-96) -- Nazism is no excuse: after Farías - the Allied Gaze and the second crisis (1997-2002) -- After America, philosophy -- Nothing shall be spared, a manifesto on the future of Japan studies.