Empires: Dead, Dying and Dormant -- Empires - West and East; Curious Conjunction and Contemporary Consequences, Complexity and Circumstances -- Japanese Imperial Sport as Failed Cultural Conditioning: Korean ‘Recalcitrance’ -- The Unclosed Door: South Korea's Post-Colonial Sport as a Revanchist Reaction to Japanese Imperial Legacies -- A Living Legacy (Part One): Japanese Imperialism and Chinese Revanchism – Modern Sport as a Modern Medium -- A Living Legacy (Part Two): Japanese Imperialism - Residual Resentment and an Unforgiving China: the Sports Cartoon as Political Aide-Memoire -- Japanese Cultural Imperialism in Taiwan: Judo as an Instrument of Colonial Conditioning -- Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Control: Sport as a Component of Cultural Conditioning, Political Domination and Militaristic Imperialism -- A Clash of Colonialisms: Sports Culture in Hong Kong under the Japanese Occupation -- The Ambivalence of the Reaction, Response, Legacy and War Memory: The Japanese Occupation of the Malayan Peninsula: the Consequences for Sport of the Imperial Past and the Democratic Present -- Towards the Construction of a New Regionalism? The End of East Asian Colonialism: Japanese Responses and Reactions to the Games of Asia -- Tokyo 2020: Opportunity for Regional Reconciliation or Protracted Antagonism? -- Retained Memories, Political Pressures, Catalytic Moments - Tokyo 2020 Reconciliation? -- ‘The past is a present country’.