The End of the Pacific War -- Remaking Japan, 1945 to 1948 -- Northeast Asia and the Pacific, 1945 to 1947 -- Reinterpeting the Postwar World -- An Aborted Treaty -- The Conservative Response to Liberal Reform -- Setting a New Course -- Regional Economic Integration and the Rise of Southeast Asia -- The Peace Treaty: Trying Again -- Japanese Recovery Prospects in the Wake of China's Revolution -- NSC 48 and the Renewed Debate over Asian Communism -- Containment and Recovery in Japan and Southeast Asia -- A Commitment to Vietnam -- Japan and the Rekindled Crisis with China -- At War in Asia -- Afterward: The Workshop of Asia.