Contents

Vol.100 An Arena for Intellectual Opinion and Debate：Commemorating One-Hundred Issues
  • Special Feature: An Arena for Intellectual Opinion and Debate：Commemorating One-Hundred Issues
    Preface    		 by Masayuki Tadokoro
  • I. Thirty-Eight Years of Asteion

    The Asteion Philosophy    		 by Kiyokazu Washida
  • A Spirit of Urbanity, Past and Future by Tadashi Karube
  • In Search of a Free and Intellectual Journalism by Kaori Kawai
  • A Bird’s Eye View of Civilization, A Dog’s Eye View of the City by Seiichi Hayashi
  • For True Academic Knowledge and Knowledge of the World by Junko Saeki
  • For a Deeper, “Day Stars” Culture by Mari Akazawa
  • At the Time of My Serial “Shiki no shokutaku” (Shiki Masaoka’s Table) by Kai Hasegawa
  • Can the Liberal Arts Bring Us Together in an Age of Division? by Eiko Imahashi
  • The Platform Provided by a Commentary Magazine by Ryota Yoneda
  • Media Like Having a Conversation Over Beer by Naota Sanbe
  • The Art of Intellectual Play by Akihiro Yamamoto
  • A Magazine Like an Evening Garden—Poised Between Daytime Orthodoxy and Nighttime Lawlessness by Ryota Fukushima
  • II. The Challenge of Intellectual Journalism

    The Future of Intellectual Debate in Print Media    		 by Takenori Inoki
  • Three Essentials for Intellectual Journalism by Yuji Genda
  • Intellectual Journalism and Contemporary Art by Hiroko Ikegami
  • Naming and Noise by Yoko Nii
  • Further Thoughts on Academic Journalism by Kazufumi Watanabe
  • Supplementing Technology With On-Site Knowledge by Sayaka Ogawa
  • A Million Stones Falling From the Sky by Anna Toi
  • Will the Day Come When It Is Cool to be Seen Carrying Around Asteion? by Yuko Obi
  • The Perspective of an Economist Born in 1987 by Junichi Yamasaki
  • America or Otherwise by Seiko Katsura
  • III. What Was Debated in the Pages of Asteion

    Crumbling Civilization and the Role of the Intellectual    		 by Keishi Saeki
  • To Speak of Nations and Civilization by Ikuo Gonoï
  • A Forum of Public Debate for the Sake of Democracy by Shigeki Uno
  • Political Science and the Period of Political Reform in Japan by Ikuo Kume
  • Grand Narratives and Small Apocalypses—From the Cold War to “Make Japan Great Again” by Wataru Yamaguchi
  • Reconsidering the Article “Exporting Civilization” by Hiroyuki Itami
  • Thinking About Present-Day China After Reading Articles From the Heyday of “Made in Japan” and Theories About America by Kazuhiro Iwama
  • Society and I Thirty-Eight Years Ago, or, A Chronicle of Hindsight by Natsuki Ikezawa
  • Breaking Down Walls Through Journalism by Terunobu Fujimori
  • The Face of City, Region, and Nation in a Mature Society by Hidenobu Jinnai
  • Everything Started With My Serial “Taisho Gen’ei” (Taisho-period Dreaming) by Saburo Kawamoto
  • The Advancing “Deodorantization” of Tokyo by Mayumi Mori
  • Theatrical Fears of Extinction by Yoshio Ozasa
  • On Reading Yawarakai kojinshugi no tanjo (Birth of Soft Individualism) After Working at a Distribution Warehouse by Keita Watano

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  • IV. In a Changing World

    American Century, My Father’s Style    		 by Satoshi Udo
  • Responding to the Changing Problems of the Times by Masashi Miura
  • Engagement as a Member of Humanity by Yuri Nagura
  • Gaiatsu and the Future by Yoriko Meguro
  • For a New Consciousness Raising—MRSDH+ (Migrant, Refugee, Stateless People, Dual/Multiple Citizenship, Half/Double/Mix) by Chen Tienshi
  • America, Ideal and Reality by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
  • One Globalization Story by Fukiko Aoki
  • Living in the Tides of History by Keiko Yoshioka
  • Who Will Fill the Void of the Middle in Society? by Ryuichi Kanari
  • The Political Decline of the World’s Leading Nation by Margarita Estévez-Abe
  • Professor Daniel Bell and the American University by Takako Hikotani
  • The Eternal Issue of Thinking About America by Seiko Mimaki
  • Insight to Read the Times by Yuichi Hosoya
  • Special Feature Roundtable
    Looking Back Over the Time Since 1986—The Period of Suntory Hall and Asteion    		 A discussion with Morihide Katayama,
    Masashi Miura,
    and Masayuki Tadokoro
  • Photographic Report
    Continuing to Make a Print Magazine in the Digital Age
    ：An interview with early Asteion designer Hideya Arata    		 by Kaoru Kobayashi
  • Serials
    Revisiting the History of Jiangnan (Southern China)
    Final Part. The Do-or-Die Interior    		 by Takashi Okamoto
  • The Beginnings of Entomology
    Final Part. The People Who Supported Japanese Entomology    		 by Daisaburo Okumoto