Published by Kansai Institute of Asia-Pcific Studies Osaka University of Foreign Studies 8-1-1,Aomatani-higashi,Minoo City,Osaka,562 Japan

CONTENTS

Foreword                                        Takeshi Matsuda    iii

Announcement of New Names of the Institute
and its Journal                                  Osamu Akagi       (1)



The Formation and Development of the Pacific-Rim


What Asia Will or Won't Stand for:
Globalizing Human Rights and Democracy           Edward Friedman    (3)

Modern Mythology: Epics through the Idiot Box    Arvind N.DAS      (59)

A New Balance of Economics and National
Security:  Interpreting the U.S.-Japan
Relaitonship and Asian Economic Block from
a Technology Perspective                        Yuzo Murayama      (73)

Australia and Asia-Pacific Region: From the
Recognition of the "Threat" to the "Symbiosis"  Masami Kawara      (87)

Stilwell Incident                               Yoneyuki Sugita   (113)

The Rise and Fall of Sapru House Library        S.Ansari          (131)


ARTICLES

Democratic Control of American Foreign Policy:
American Diplomacy and Congress                 Takeshi Matsuda   (137)

Searching for 'National Identities':
Contemporary British Society, 1994-95 with
Appendix: "A New Framework for Agreement"       Shigeru Akita     (163)

The Origins of British Empire in India: Recent
Interpretaions                                  P.J.Marshall      (193)

Ramayama Legends prevailed in Southeast Asia
(4):  Lanka Xiho, the Tai Lu version of Rama
story                                           Toru Ohno         (211)


SPECIAL REPORT

Research Institutions and Foundations on
Asia-Pacific Region in Japan                    Osamu Akagi,Shigeru Akita
                                                & Yasuhiro Yamada (265)


Book Reviews                                                      (299)

Tributes to Professor Emeritus Kagaya Kan                         (315)

From the Editors                                                  (347)


Yone Sugita                                Phone/fax:  81-727-30-5416
Associate Professor of American History
sugita@post01.osaka-gaidai.ac.jp
Osaka U. of Foreign Studies
8-1-1 Aomadani-Higashi, Minoh-City
Osaka, Japan  562
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