Director's foreword / Jeremy Strick
Acknowledgments / Paul Schimmel
Flat boy vs. skinny : Takashi Murakami and the battle for "Japan" / Dick Hebdige
Making Murakami / Paul Schimmel
Murakami matrix : Takashi Murakami's instrumentalization of Japanese postmodern culture / Midori Matsui
The meaning of the nonsense of excess / Mika Yoshitake
Takashi Murakami : company man / Scott Rothkopf.