In 2002 three books on the modern history of Southeast Asia were published as a part of the Iwanami History of Southeast Asia (published by Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo). Volume 7, Anti-Colonial Resistance and Nationalism (Ikehata Setsuho ed., xii+300p.), covers the period from the end of the 19^th century through the 1930's; Volume 8, The Age of Nation State Building (Goto Ken'ichi ed., x+310p.), covers the period from 1939 through the 1950's. Volume 9, The Age of “Development” and “Exploring” (Suehiro Akira ed., xii+396p.), covers the period from 1960's to the present. This article reviews all three volumes in terms of the study of nationalism.
All three volumes describe the modern history of Southeast Asia from the viewpoint of various actors who had up till now been disregarded in the research. Furuta Motoo (in vol. 8) discusses the role of the Thanh Nghi intellectuals in the Vietnamese August Revolution, while Ikehata Setsuho (in vol. 7) considers the Philippine revolution from the viewpoint of provincial revolutionary leaders on the Visayan Islands.
In Vol. 7, Ino Kenji analyzes the spread of the Hsaya San Rebellion in Burma from the standpoint of Burmese peasants, while Sakurai Yumio also emphasizes the logic of the rural community in understanding people's participation in nation wide movements in his lecture on the Can Vuong Movement in Vietnam.
Hara Fujio (in vol. 8) discusses the role of the Malayan Communist Party in expediting the decolonization process of British Malaya, while Hirosue Masashi (in vol. 7) describes in his lecture, entitled “Jihad in Indonesia, ” the behavior of local officials in the Dutch East Indies in the context of a spreading anti-colonial movement.
Nakano Satoshi presents a new understanding of nation building, using the term of “national sphere” in his lectures about the Philippines under the rule of the United States (in vol. 7) and Japan (in vol. 8). He also re-appraises the “collaborating” elite as a protector of political stability and the welfare of the local people.
After examining each paper in the three volumes, this review article outlines the results being achieved in the contemporary study of Southeast Asian modern history in Japan, especially on the topic of nationalism, and touches upon some problems that still remain.

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