On hoi hajime / Kondo Yoshikazu -- Georges bigotand the catholic church in mid Meiji : the anticlericalism of the French inhabitants in Japan / Yamanashi Atsushi -- Chiang Kai-shek's personality and Japan's role in its formation / Huang Tzu-chin -- Some thoughts concerning the selection of the Ise saiku, the vestal virgin serving a Ise shrine / Itakura Norie -- Reconfiguring the hierarchical writing style : deviant Kanbun in official history and gesaku fictin / Sato Kazuki -- Edogawa Ranpo and the shiverring of the eye : on visuality in fictin / Suzuki Sadami