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  • Photographic Report
    Using Computer Graphics to Visualize the Historic Dotonbori District in Osaka
    by Yutaka Yabuta
  • Special Feature: World War I:100 Years Later
    The Second Coming:
    On the Lost Possibilities Thwarted by World War I
    by Hiroshi Nakanishi

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  • A World Without a Hotline: War 1914 by Erik Goldstein

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  • The "European War" and the Wavering Zeitgeist in Japan by Ryoichi Tobe

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  • Europe and the Breakup of the Ottoman Empire by Nobuyoshi Fujinami

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  • Japanese Reporting on World War I and "Postwar" Thought: Discourse on Total War and the Future for Japan by Jan Schmidt
  • Women's Fashion Revolution by Toyoko Yamada

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  • Photo-essay
    The Aesthetics of an Artist Fused with Local Culture (The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Takamatsu City in Kagawa Prefecture)
    by Mizuho Kuwata
  • Essays  
    On Organizing the Tokugawa Civilization Exhibition by Toru Haga
  • Changing Faces of Beauty:
    Thoughts on Seeing a Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition
    by Shuji Takashina
  • The Ghosts of World War I:
    The Lure of Drawing Historical Analogies
    by Yuichi Hosoya
  • Articles
    The Nature of the LDP Political System:
    Obstacles to Leadership
    by Naoto Nonaka
    "Conservative" and "Progressive" for Young People:
    Differences in How Political Parties Are Perceived
    by Different Generations
    by Masahisa Endo and Willy Jou
    Is the Theory of the End of Art Correct?
    Remembering Arthur Danto
    by Masashi Miura
  • Serial
    Philosophy of Rhythm Notes, Parts 3 and 4
    by Masakazu Yamazaki
  • Correspondence on Current Thought
    The Course of Culture and Democracy
    by Kyo Cho
    The Values Underpinning Society in New Zealand by Takashi Shogimen
    Historians in the Digital Age by Mariko Okada
    Statistics Predicting the Future by Yasushi Watanabe
  • Essays
    What Constitutes a "Real" Art Work?
    Thoughts on the Mamoru Samuragochi Musical Fraud
    by Hiroshi Watanabe
    The Loneliness of the Underappreciated Persimmon by Terunobu Fujimori
    Do Japanese Youth Really Face a Dark Future? by Daisaburo Okumoto
  • Round-Table Talk
    The Promise of Japan:
    Currents of Thought in Japan
    A discussion among Kiyokazu Washida, Mikiro Sasaki, and Shinichi Yamamuro
  • Forum Report

    Reexamining Japan in Global Context