Machine generated contents note: 1. Beyond Orientalism -- 2. The Politics of Area Studies in the US during the Funding Period: The Cases of Japanese and Southeast Asian Studies -- 3. The Dilemmas of a Japanese Historian: Yamamoto Tatsuro and the Reconstruction of Southeast Asian Studies -- 4. Revisiting the Department of Nanyo (South Sea) History at Taihoku Imperial University (1928-40) -- 5. Japanese Wartime Use of Philippine History -- 6. In Search of a National Language under the Japanese Occupation -- 7. Translating Philippine History into Japanese during the Vietnam War Era