This annual report discusses several topics related to the work of the Clinical Center for Child Development at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The articles are: (1) "Other's Voice/Own Voice: (Re)production of Other's Voice and Its Apprenticeship in Japanese Young Children" (Shing-Jen Chen); (2) "Intersubjectivity during Bottle Feeding: How Mothers Talk to Their Premature Infants" (Jean Ashland); (3) "An Inquiry into Young Children's Development of Self through Emotional Communication with Their Family Members" (Yuko Kanaya); (4) "The Relation between Emotionality and Empathy-Related Responses in Japanese Young Children" (Nobuko Hoshi, Emiko Kusanagi, Shing-Jen Chen, Yoshinobu Takahashi); (5) "Masking of Negative Emotional Expression in 3-Year-Olds" (Yoshinobu Takahashi, Emiko Kusanagi, Nobuko Hoshi); (6) "Physical Characteristics and Food-Intake in Japanese Young Children" (Yukari Shirotani, Masahiro Horiuchi, Kiyoshi Moriya); (7) "The Relations of Children's Narratives about Hypothetical Situations to the Contemporaneous Empathy-Related Responses and the Future Moral Development"(Emiko Kusanagi, Nobuko Hoshi, Yoshinobu Takahashi); (8) "'Jiyang': Long-Term Nonparental Child Rearing in China" (Dahui He, Shing-Jen Chen); and (9) "Toward a Sympathetic Propensity Theory of Mind" (Shigeru Nakano). Each article contains references. (KB)