Ronald DORE Japan – Sixty Years of Modernization? .... 11

KUWAYAMA Takami Japanese Anthropology and Folklore Studies.... 25

ITŌ Abito The Distinctiveness and Marginality of Japanese Culture.... 43

FUKUTA AJIO How the Task of Studying Yanagita Kunio Has Developed.... 63

ISHIGE Naomichi Historical Survey of the Food Culture .... 75

Hans Dieter ÖLSCHLEGER The Cultural Turn in German Japanese Studies.... 91

Klaus ANTONI The Divine Country: On State and Religion in Modern Japan .... 101

Sepp LINHART The Study of Japanese Values .... 123

Axel KLEIN Studies on the Japanese Political System.... 141

Ralph LÜTZELER German Geographical Research on Japan .... 153

SASAKI Kōmei The Origins of Japanese Ethnic Culture – Looking Back and Forward.... 167

Patrick HEINRICH Casting Light on the Past: Lessons on the Origin and Formation of Japanese-Ryūkyūan.... 185

TAKARA Kurayoshi Mainstream and Future Tasks of Studies in Ryūkyūan History.... 205

Gregory SMITS Ryūkyū’s Relations with China and Japan.... 215

Rosa CAROLI Recent Trends in Historiography on Modern Okinawa .... 229

Ulrike SCHAEDE Japan’s Business Practices in the 21st Century.... 251

Karl August NEUHAUSEN Ultima Orientis Thule Reconsidered.... 271

Wolfgang MICHEL Medicine and Allied Sciences in the Cultural Exchange .... 285

Christian OBERLÄNDER Japan’s Deutschlandpolitik in the Postwar Period .... 303

Claudius C. MÜLLER Museums of Ethnology and Japanese Studies.... 313

Timon SCREECH An Iconography of Nihon-bashi.... 323

Justin STAGL Japan As the Other – A Personal Account .... 337

Harumi BEFU Consumer Nihonjinron.... 345