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Photographic Report Beloved Xylophone Days	by Mutsumi Tsuuzaki

Foreword The Continuing Curse of Empire’s Fall	by Satoshi Ikeuchi

Special Feature: The Continuing Curse of Empire’s Fall An Interview with Professor Gilles Kepel, Political Scientist and Expert on the Contemporary Islamic World: On Europe’s Homegrown Terrorists	by Norito Kunisue

Dissolving Middle-Eastern States, Spreading Threat by Akifumi Ikeda
Russia’s Middle East: A New Power Game by Yu Koizumi
Unrecognized States, the Children of Empire by Yoko Hirose
Collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the Modernization of China by Takashi Okamoto
The Far-Flung Political Order of Turkic Nomads from the Mongolian Steppe by Shigeo Saito
Testing of the Nation-State: Germany’s Refugee Dilemma by Yuichi Morii

Dissolving Middle-Eastern States, Spreading Threat	by Akifumi Ikeda

Russia’s Middle East: A New Power Game	by Yu Koizumi

Unrecognized States, the Children of Empire	by Yoko Hirose

Collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the Modernization of China	by Takashi Okamoto

The Far-Flung Political Order of Turkic Nomads from the Mongolian Steppe	by Shigeo Saito

Testing of the Nation-State: Germany’s Refugee Dilemma	by Yuichi Morii

Photo-essays The Rich History of Matsusaka Cotton Cloth and of Edo-period Kokugaku Scholar Motoori Norinaga. (Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture)	by Takashi Mikuriya

Essays
Watanbe Kazan and the Pax Tokugawa by Toru Haga
Is Culture the Mother of Economic Development? by Shuji Takashina
Internationalization Before the Era of Globalization: Further Thoughts on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics by Hiroshi Watanabe

Essays Watanbe Kazan and the Pax Tokugawa	by Toru Haga

Is Culture the Mother of Economic Development?	by Shuji Takashina

Internationalization Before the Era of Globalization: Further Thoughts on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics	by Hiroshi Watanabe

Articles Newspaperman Ochi Fukuchi’s Challenge to Meiji Lies	by Kaoru Iokibe

Hopes and Reality of the New Democracy in Myanmar by Marie Lall

Article
Past and Future of Okinawa’s Gokoku Shrine for the War Dead by Michiko Miyatake
Localized Democracy: Territorial Fragmentation and Consolidation Reform in Osaka by Yosuke Sunahara

Hopes and Reality of the New Democracy in Myanmar	by Marie Lall

Past and Future of Okinawa’s Gokoku Shrine for the War Dead	by Michiko Miyatake

Localized Democracy: Territorial Fragmentation and Consolidation Reform in Osaka	by Yosuke Sunahara

Correspondence on Current Thought How “Asian” is Japan? The East Asian Modernization Dispute	by Kazunari Ogawa

The Present State of Game Studies: The Trend Toward Immersion by Hiroshi Yoshida
Japan and World War I by Sochi Naraoka

The Present State of Game Studies: The Trend Toward Immersion	by Hiroshi Yoshida

Japan and World War I	by Sochi Naraoka

Essays Thoughts on Keeping Ahead of Japan’s Persistent Weeds	by Terunobu Fujimori

Insect Collecting and Aging Eyes	by Daisaburo Okumoto

Interview Special Interview of Masakazu Yamazaki by Tadashi Karube: Thirty Years of a Journal “Feeling Strongly, Thinking Softly”

Special Report Looking Back at Thirty Years of Asteion: Reminiscences of Editorial Board Members

Keeping Abreast of World Thought and Attempting Intellectual Dispatches From Japan by Masayuki Tadokoro
New Perspectives on Current Problems Thoroughly Based in Fundamental Intellectual Thought by Tadashi Karube
Why the Humanities Are Important in Our Age of Technology by Kyo Cho
Lessons of History and Wisdoms for Diplomacy: Three Historians in the Post-Cold War World by Yuichi Hosoya
Asteion and Japanese Politics: From No Coverage to Mature Political Analysis by Satoshi Machidori

Keeping Abreast of World Thought and Attempting Intellectual Dispatches From Japan	by Masayuki Tadokoro

New Perspectives on Current Problems Thoroughly Based in Fundamental Intellectual Thought	by Tadashi Karube

Why the Humanities Are Important in Our Age of Technology	by Kyo Cho

Lessons of History and Wisdoms for Diplomacy: Three Historians in the Post-Cold War World	by Yuichi Hosoya

Asteion and Japanese Politics: From No Coverage to Mature Political Analysis	by Satoshi Machidori

Serial Philosophy of Rhythm Notes: Part 7, Rhythm and “Me”	by Masakazu Yamazaki

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