JAMES E. GOODBY is Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Jennings Randolph Distinguished Fellow, the United States Institute of Peace.
VLADIMIR I. IVANOV is with the Institute of World Economics and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
NOBUO SHIMOTOMAI is Professor at Hosei University, Tokyo.

Preface by James E. Goodby, Vladimir I. Ivanov, and Nobuo Shimotomai
Introduction by Vladimir I. Ivanov
History of the Territorial Dispute to 1986
The Northern Territories/South Kuril Islands Dispute by Saburo Okita and Minoru Takahashi
A Diplomatic History of the Dispute by Raymond Garthoff
From Stalin to Brezhnev by Alexander N. Panov
Problems of the Neutrality Period by Matthew J. Ouimet
On the Historiographical Frontier by John J. Stephan
Japanese Perceptions of Russia by Hiroshi Kimura
Russian Perceptions of Japan by Semiyon I. Verbitskii
Rethinking the Relationship, 1986-1993
From Gorbachev to Yeltsin by Alexander Panov
Shintaro Abe's "Creative Diplomacy" by Junjiro Isomura
The Debate Before the Summit by Herbert J. Ellison
Continuing Stalemate by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Japan's Russia Policy and October 1993 Summit by Nobuo Shimotomai
Overcoming the Psychological Impasse by Konstantin O. Sarkisov
Beyond the Cold War
The Territorial Dispute in the Post-Cold War International Context by Robert A. Scalapino
An Age of Upheaval by Donald C. Hellmann
Paths to Resolution of the Territorial Dispute by Vasili I. Saplin
Natural Resources of the Disputed Area by Mark J. Valencia and Noel A. Ludwig
Environment and History by Peter J. Poole
Russian Economic Reforms and Japan by Ivan Tselitschev
How Japan Should Deal with Russia by Motohide Saito
Towards New Era of Russian-Japanese Relations by Susumu Takahashi
Regional Security and the Future of the Trilateral Relationship
New Opportunities for Russian-Japanese Normalization by Vladimir P. Lukin
New Priorities for Asia-Pacific Security by Sheila A. Smith
Regional Security Context by Atsushi Shimokobe
Naval and Other Forces in the Northwest Pacific by James L. George
Japan, Russia, and Nuclear Nonproliferation by Takehiko Kamo
Russia and the United States-Japan Partnership by Vladimir I. Ivanov
Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy, and Defense Conversion by Takeshi Kondo
Cooperative Security in Northeast Asia by James E. Goodby
Chronology of Events, 1986-1994 by Robert Valliant
Bibliography by Frederick A. Williams

A comprehensive examination of the past, present, and future of Russian-Japanese relations.