FROM THE EDITOR (SHIRAISHI Takashi)

CHRONOLOGY
January – February 2010

FROM THE PUBLISHER (HARANO Jôji)

FINDING JAPAN’S WAY IN THE WORLD (TANAKA Toshirô)
Hatoyama’s US Policy: An Unsteady Hand on the Tiller (KITAOKA Shin’ichi)
Common Sense About the Japan-US Alliance (TERASHIMA Jitsurô)

WHITHER THE NATION?
In Search of Japan’s Identity (SHIRAISHI Takashi)
Ten Years Down the Road: Overcoming the Obstacles (MASUZOE Yôichi, KATAYAMA Yoshihiro, MIZUKI Yô, HAMA Noriko)

ERODING SUPPORT FOR HATOYAMA (TAKENAKA Harukata)
Disturbing Developments under the DPJ (TAKENAKA Heizô)
Bringing the Bureaucrats to Heel: A Report from the Front (MAEHARA Seiji, interviewed by HANAOKA Nobuaki)

MACROECONOMIC STRATEGY FOR THE DPJ TEAM (NARIAI Osamu)
A Budget to Boggle the Mind (YOSANO Kaoru)
Economic Advice for the New Administration (IWATA Kikuo, IKEO Kazuhito)

VOICES OF JAPAN
Japan-US Relations: Anatomy of Denial (UCHIDA Tatsuru, interviewed by KÔNO Michikazu)

WAR RESPONSIBILITY
Delay and Finally Surrender (Yomiuri Shimbun War Responsibility Reexamination Committee)