Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Illusion and Disillusion -- Sugiyama Shigeru, "On Relations among Nations" (1878) -- Shiba Shirō, "Strange Encounters with Beautiful Women" (1885-1887) -- Inoue Enryō, "Religion in America" (1889) -- Uchimura Kanzō, "First Impressions of Christendom" (1893) -- Kōtoku Shūsui, "Letters from San Francisco" (1905-1906) -- 2. Students and Immigrants -- Katayama Sen, "Advice on Going to America" (1901) -- Noguchi Yonejirō, "My Life in California" (1911) -- Aoyama Tetsushirō, "Home Life in America" (1916) -- Sasaki Shigetsu, "Excluded Japanese and Exclusionist Americans" (1920) -- Anonymous, "The Soul of America" (1921) -- Shibusawa Eiichi, "On the Anti-Japanese Movement in America" (1924) -- 3. Modan America -- Ashida Hitoshi, "America on the Rise" (1925) -- Maida Minoru, "The Characteristics and Peculiarities of the Americans" (1925) -- Abe Isoo, "Baseball and the American Character" (1925) -- Noguchi Yonejirō, "American High Society" (1925) -- Sasaki Shigetsu, "The Troublesome American Woman" (1927) -- Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, "Motion Pictures: The Americanization Machine" (1929) -- Kiyosawa Kiyoshi, "America, the Land of Speed" (1929) -- 4. The American Enemy -- Konoe Fumimaro, "My Impressions of Washington and New York" (1934) -- Kada Tetsuji, "American Perspectives on Japan, and Vice Versa" (1941) -- Sawada Ken, "On the History of American Imperialism" (1941) -- Muneo Matsuji, "America's Race Problem" (1941) -- Miyake Daisuke, "Remembering American Baseball" (1941) -- Matsushita Masatoshi, "The American Home Front" (1942) -- Nakano Gorō, "The Will to Annihilate the American Enemy" (1943) -- Sakanishi Shiho, "Why Do Americans Break the Law?" (1944) -- Roundtable Discussion: "Grasping the Reality of the American Enemy" (1944).

5. The American Occupiers -- Home Ministry, "Illegal Behavior by American Soldiers" (1945) -- Kagawa Toyohiko, "Whence the American Sense of Morality?" (1945) -- Itō Michio, "Culture and the Arts in America" (1945) -- Asahi shinbun, "Remembering General MacArthur" (1951) -- Symposium, "What We Have Gained from America, and What We Have Lost" (1952) -- Satō Tadao, "What Is America to Us?" (1967) -- 6. America Ascendant -- Ishigaki Ayako, "The American Housewife" (1951) -- Gotō Yonosuke, "The Dynamic Logic of American Capitalism" (1956) -- Tsuru Shigeto, "America after Fourteen Years" (1956) -- Oda Makoto, "The Other Side of American Society" (1961) -- Yasuoka Shōtarō, "Living in Nashville" (1960-1961) -- Etō Jun, "America as I See It" (1963) -- Etō Jun, "The Old Face of America" (1964) -- Ōe Kenzaburō, "Dealing with Pearl Harbor" (1967) -- 7. America in Decline -- Oda Makoto, "Americans: Between War and Peace" (1965) -- Honda Katsuichi, "Traveling through the Deep South" (1970) -- Kirishima Yōko, "The Lonely American" (1971) -- Yoshida Ruiko, "Hot Days in Harlem" (1972) -- Kōsaka Masataka, "A Proposal for Encouraging America" (1980) -- Shimomura Mitsuko, "Glorious America, Where Are You?" (1980) -- Saeki Shōichi, "Rediscovering America's Dynamic Society" (1987) -- Yomota Inuhiko, "Koreans in New York" (1989) -- Morita Akio, "The Trouble with the American Economy" (1989) -- Notes.