Introduction: Japan of my childhood -- Acknowledgements -- Quezon and Sukiyaki -- Quezon in Japan, 1938 -- The Mysterious Luzon Jars -- Rusontsubo, Luzon Jars -- More on the mysterious Luzon Jars -- Adventures with Soy Sauce -- Japanese origins of the Philippine Halo halo -- Katipunan and the Emperor of Japan -- Watermelons for a Japanese admiral -- Japan under our skin -- Japan in 17th Century Philippine History -- The Philippines in Nagasaki -- Martyrs of Nagasaki -- Rizal and O-sei -- Philippine history in Yokohama -- Silk socks for the President -- With Ricarte in Yokohama -- A Brain preserved in Yale -- Cleopatra's nose, Wood's brain tumor -- JFK, Diarrhea and History.

Textbook history didn't teach me much about World War II, the Japanese were portrayed as evil, but not as bad as the Spanish who shot Rizal.