(Columbus: The Ohio State University Foreign Language Publications, 1997) Papers in this volume were written Richard Brecht and Ron Walton, Chris Brockett, Eleanor H. Jorden, Emiko Konomi, Shigeru Miyagawa, Mari Noda, Charles Quinn, Jr., and Masakazu Watabe. The conference and publication of the proceedings was made possible by a grant from the United States-Japan Foundation.