Chapter 1. Explanation: The Formation, Process and Results of the San Francisco system (Kim).- Part I. The San Francisco System in the Postwar World Order.- Chapter 2. Clientelism For Ever?- Contemplating the San Francisco Peace Treaty Settlement 72 Years On (MaCormack).- Chapter 3. The Core Values of Cairo Declaration and an Exit Strategy to Overcome the Limitations of the San Francisco Peace Treaty (Jang-Hie).
- Chapter 4. A Case for the Modifiability of the San Francisco Peace Treaty: Examining the Varying Positions of the U.S. and Britain over South Korean Participation (Yi).- Chapter 5. Challenges to the Post-war Asia-Pacific International Order (Amstrong).- Chapter 6. Hasty Peace, Nasty Greed: Analyzing the Defects of the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco in Comparison with the 1919 Treaty of Versailles (Won).
- Part 2. Japanese Historical Position and the San Francisco system.- Chapter 7. The Political Situation Surrounding the "Trans-war Phenomenon" in Postwar Japan and the San Francisco Peace Treaty (Yi).- Chapter 8. A Study on Modern Japanese Colonialism and Ryukyu Restoration (Yong).- Chapter 9. What the Treaty of Peace with Japan(1951) Repudiates: The Discourse of Civilization during the First Sino-Japanese War as the Beginning of 'Violence and Greed' (Oh).
- Chapter 10. Japanese Second World War Memory and San Francisco Peace Treaty (Yang).- Part 3. Unsolved Problems in the San Francisco System.- Chapter 11. Beyond the San Francisco System: An Inspiration from Canada (Hara).- Chapter 12. Transcending the San Francisco System requires the elimination of colonial remnants--with a focus on post-war territorial disputes in Northeast Asia (Dekun).
- Chapter 13. The San Francisco Peace Treaty and Territorial Issues: Information Pamphlets on Territorial Issues from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Their Impact (JUNG).- Part 4. The San Francisco System and The Human Right.- Chapter 14. Unlawfulness of Japan's Colonization of Korean PeninsulaKorea' Declaration of January 21, 1904 and Japan's Violation of International Law (Totsuka).- Chapter 15. Remedies for the Victims of Crimes against Humanity: The Case of Comfort Woman and Forced Labor (Baik).
- Chapter 16. The Continuity of Statehood and Peoplehood in Modern Korea: How the Republic of Korea Defined its Citizenry (Lee).- Chapter 17. Righting the Wrongs of the Past between the Republic of Korea and Japan as a Retrial of the 'San Francisco System' (Kim).- Part 5. Beyond the San Francisco System.- Chapter 18. Beyond the San Francisco System: A Japanese View (Haruki).
- Chapter 19. Beyond the San Francisco System, to Where? Contending Visions for the Region-Building in East Asia (Won).- Chapter 20. Trouble Among East Asian Allies? America's Troubling Past (Dudden).- Chapter 21. From the Joint Statement by Korean and Japanese Intellectuals to the End of the San Francisco System Evaluation Conferences - Toward a Durban Conference of East-Asian Intellectuals (Kim).