SUBREGION #1: The  map shows an extended region of Asia we decided to call "Pan-Asia Crescent" in our project, but it by no means covers all of Asia. We must eventually include all of Southeast Asia. But as the first step toward this eventual goal, we must redefine Japan, our own country, its people, and its place in the history of East Asia, a thorny subject often called the "history issue" by our neighbors. While this task concerns itself primarily with Subregion #1 and #2, Subregion #3 represents the single most important issue of the day demanding Japan to reinvent her own modern history. What's at issue is the question whether democracy and freedom can be forced upon a nation.

To go to the web pages of individual subregions, go back to the previous page and click the blue lines