A pre-trip note for Kanazawa, Toyama, and Komatsu covering 1945–1989: US occupation and military government, the Shōwa emperor's tour of Hokuriku, repatriates and links with Taiwan, Kanazawa University inside the castle and the Kanazawa College of Art, the Uchinada struggle, Komatsu Air Base and Toyama Airport, Kanazawa port and the Hokuriku Expressway, Kurobe Dam and the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, YKK and Komatsu, the itai-itai disease lawsuit, and manga, literature, film, and television from Hokuriku Broadcasting, Fujiko Fujio, Itsuki Hiroyuki, and Zero Focus.

A pre-trip note for Kanazawa, Toyama, and Komatsu covering 1926–1945: the Kanazawa broadcasting station, kafē and talkies, the former Ishikawa Bank Hashiba branch, a Noh stage built of Alishan cypress from Taiwan, and the Toyama Denki Building, the 9th Division's moves from Shanghai and Manchuria to Taiwan, Komatsu's city charter and naval airfield, evacuation and building clearance in Kanazawa, the Toyama air raid of 2 August 1945, links with Taiwan, and the arrival of US troops in Kanazawa after the war.