The useful war -- Japanese cinema goes to war -- "NI" and "F" : Japan's wartime atomic bomb research -- Sensational rumors, seditious graffiti, and the nightmares of the thought police -- Occupied Japan and the cold war in Asia -- Yoshida in the scales of history -- Japanese artists and the atomic bomb -- Race, language, and war in two cultures -- Graphic others/graphic selves : cartoons in war and peace -- Fear and prejudice in U.S.-Japan relations -- Postscript : Two reflections on the death of the Showa Emperor -- The Emperor in war and peace : views from the West -- Showa as past, present, and future.