The table of contents of this book will tell the reader, at a glance, that the book covers a wide range of topics. These topics have entered into the dialogue because they are matters of personal concern to the two participants. The dialogue is now being published as a book in the hope that the same topics will prove to be matters of general concern fot the authors` contemporaries in the English-speaking world, in Japan and elsewhere.

Contents:

1. The basic human being

2. The environment

3. The intellect

4. Health and welfare

5. Man as the social animal

6. The second half of this century

7. Arms and war

8. Choosing a political system

9. One world

10.The nature of things

11.Roles religion plays

12.Good and evil

Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global perspective.

Daisaku Ikeda (池田大作born January 2, 1928) is president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a Buddhist association with about 12 million members in more than 190 countries and territories, and founder of several educational, cultural and research institutions. Also an honorary member of the Club of Rome.