| Special Contributions |
| Alfredo VIGGIANO, Venice. A Mediterranean Port City from 15th to 18th Century | 3 |
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| Articles |
| TAKAHASHI Masaaki, Kiyomori(清盛)’s Diplomacy for China and Oowada-no-tomari(大輪田泊) | 27 |
| FUJITA Hirotsugu, A Report on the Port Towns along the Inland Sea : Linked with Hyogo in the mid-Fifteenth Century | 41 |
| MORI Noriko, The Historical Background of the Cultural Friction in Colonial Qingdao | 59 |
| HIGUCHI Daisuke, Tainan and Port-of-Anping, as a Contact Space : As to a Failure of Encounter, in Jokaisen-kidan by Haruo Sato | 69 |
| MIYAUCHI Hajime, The Relationship in Local Elite of Guangdong in the End of Qing Era : In View of Member of Guangdong Difang Zizhi Yanjiu She Who Were from Shunde Prefecture | 91 |
| YANG Lei, The Traffic Plans and Traffic Solutions of Qingdao under the Japanese Occapation : Based on Traffic Solution of Occupied China: Qingdao as the Center | 103 |
| ZHANG Xiao Xin, USA and UK Oil Companies and Canton before the Second World War | 115 |
| SHIKATA Shunsuke, U.S. Foreign Policy toward Taiwan in the Early Stages of Eisenhower Administration | 123 |
| KOO Jiyoung, Exploring the Korean and the Chinese-Korean Ethnicities in Qingdao China : A Case Study Focusing on the Self-Employed of the Service Industry in the Korean-Town | 135 |
| CHANG Chin Hua, SIMAZAKI Toson’s Umi-he | 149 |
| HUNG Se-Chun, The Taoism Implied in Nakajima Atsushi’s Kohuku | 159 |
| LIAO Wen-Jui, The Narrator in the Movie Rashomon : Comparison with the Novels Rashomon and In a Bush | 171 |
| KIKUCHI Hiroko, De-construction of the “Imperial Succession” Issue : Some Considerations from Gender Theory | 181 |