- Number 1: Okinawa Feature: Part 1 (March 2001)
- Gavan McCormack – Water Margins: Competing Paradigms in China
- Laura E. Hein – Introduction: The Territory of Identity and Remembrance in Okinawa
- Gerald Figal – Waging Peace on Okinawa
- Julia Yonetani – Playing Base Politics in a Global Strategic Theater: Futenma Relocation, the G-8 Summit, and Okinawa
- Nozaki Yoshiko – Educating the Public about the Damage Caused by the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
- Rebecca Jennison – Tomiyama Taeko: An Artist's Life and Work
- Phan Thanh Hao and Wayne Karlin, trans. – Against the Flood: A Novel by Ma Van Khang
- Patricia Stranahan – Opening the Books on China's Leadership
- Moss Roberts – Designed to Fail: Two Critical Views on U.S. Diplomacy in Asia
- Ronald R. Janssen – Bad Attitudes
- Number 2: Okinawa Feature: Part 2 (June 2001)
- Elizabeth J. Perry – Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Popular Protest in Modern China
- Paul M. Monk – Secret Intelligence and Escape Clauses: Australia and the Indonesian Annexation of East Timor, 1963-76
- Laura E. Hein – Introduction: The Territory of Identity and Remembrance in Okinawa
- James E. Roberson – Uchinaa Pop: Place and Identity in Contemporary Okinawan Popular Music
- Linda Isako Angst – The Sacrifice of a Schoolgirl: The 1995 Rape Case,Discourses of Power, and Women's Lives in Okinawa
- Greg Davis – Out of Time: An Anecdotal Journey
- Charlotte Eubanks – Re-writing the Myth of Motherhood: Short Stories, trans. by Okamoto Kanoko and Hirabayashi Taiko
- Vijay Prashad – The Small Voice of Socialism: Kerala, Once Again
- Number 3 (September 2001)
- Gerry van Klinken – The Battle for History after Suharto: Beyond Sacred Dates, Great Men, and Legal Milestones
- Jordan Sand – Monumentalizing the Everyday: The Edo-Tokyo Museum
- T. Fujitani – The Reischauer Memo: Mr. Moto, Hirohito, and Japanese American Soldiers
- Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett – Economic Crisis and Restructuring in South Korea: Beyond the Free Market-Statist Debate
- Charles K. Armstrong and Clara Lee – Parallel Lives: A Conversation between Hwang Suk-young and Bao Ninh Two Veterans of the Vietnam War
- Jana Everett – Challenge and Co-optation: Women's Movements, NGOs, and Advocacy Coalitions in Asia
- Peter F. Bell – The Asian Economic Crisis and the Future of Asian Capitalism
- Anne Hardgrove – The Problem of Sati: Two Critical Views on Widow Burning
- Rebecca E. Karl – Translation, Modernity, and Women in China
- Jeff Kingston – Reshaping History: The Pan Asian View on Merdeka
- Number 4: FEATURE: Military Comfort Women (December 2001)
- Roger Des Forges and Luo Xu – China as a Non-Hegemonic Superpower?: The Uses of History among the China Can Say No Writers and Their Critics
- Bruce Cumings – Occurrence at Nogun-ri Bridge: An Inquiry into the History and Memory of a Civil War
- Charles K. Armstrong – America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam
- Stefan R. Landsberger – Learning by What Example?: Educational Propaganda in Twenty-first-Century China
- Hayashi Hirofumi – The Japanese Movement to Protest Wartime Sexual Violence: A Survey of Japanese and International Literature
- Nakahara Michiko – "Comfort Women" in Malaysia
- Alexis Dudden – "We Came to Tell the Truth": Reflections on the Tokyo Women's Tribunal
- C. Sarah Soh – Centering the Korean "Comfort Women" Survivors (video review)
- C. Sarah Soh – Hirohito Redux. Review of Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan