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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of boxes -- Preface to the English edition -- Preface -- About the authors and translator -- Prologue: Japan-China relations before 1949: between competitive coexistence and confrontation -- 1 The start of relations between sovereign states -- 2 "Modernity" and nationalism -- 3 The age of war -- 4 Japan's defeat and restructuring East Asian international relations -- 1 Japan-China relations of the 1950s: forming relations with the "two Chinas"--1 "Two Chinas" and Japan regains independence -- 2 Operations toward Japan and separation of politics and economics -- 3 Japan-China relations under the Kishi administration -- 2 Japan-China relations of the 1960s: caught between the "two Chinas"--1 Ikeda administration and "two Chinas" policy -- 2 Politics and diplomacy concerning Japan-China private trade -- 3 Japan-China relations under the Sato administration -- 3 Japan-China relations of the 1970s: international politics and restructuring of Japan-China relations -- 1 Japan and China in the shifting international environment -- 2 Japan-China diplomatic normalization -- 3 Expansion of Japan-China relations -- 4 Japan-China relations of the 1980s: greater development and appearance of problems -- 1 Industrial plant contract troubles and start of ODA to China -- 2 The first textbook issue and China's independent foreign policy -- 3 Wide-ranging development of Japan-China relations -- 4 Criticism of policy of opening and the latent Japan factor -- 5 June Fourth (the Second Tiananmen Square) Incident -- 5 Japan-China relations of the 1990s: rise of China and increase of frictions -- 1 From the Tiananmen Incident to Japanese imperial visit -- 2 From Hosokawa/Murayama administrations to Taiwan Strait Crisis