| Bert Edström and Staffan Rosén | Introduction | |
| Staffan Helmfrid | A Door-opener to East Asia: Professor Seung-bog Cho and Pacific Asia studies at Stockholm University | |
| Inge Jonsson | The Swedenborg Manuscripts as a ’Memory of the World’ | |
| Sakabe Megumi | Resonance and Feeling as the Basis of Intersubjectivity: Nishida Kitaro on the I–You relationship | |
| Uno Svedin | Perspectives in Asia on the Environment and Sustainable Development: Japan – China – India | |
| Torbjörn Lodén | Chinese and Western Culture: The myth of essential difference | |
| Ian Nish | Ito Hirobumi and His Views on China 1894-909 | |
| Staffan Rosén | Merit and Reward: The imperial Korean System of decorations 1900–1910 in an international perspective | |
| Lars Vargö | Japan och Korea: Too close to be close? | |
| Marie Söderberg | Western Encounters with Japan: Clean houses and giggling girls strike visitors | |
| Ragnar Björk | Japan Enters Great Power Politics: Swedish scholars analysing a sea change in the world-system of politics at the turn of the century 1900 | |
| Bert Edström | Signe Höjer and Hiroshima & Nagasaki as a Mirror of the Future of Mankind | |
| Olof Lidin | Armistice in Korea: Personal memories |