This journal presents new perspectives and materials on Japan that are engaging, relatively jargon-free, and shaped so that their usefulness in a college classroom is readily apparent. The journal represents an example of the potential for genuine scholarship that lies within interdisciplinary studies. Articles are divided among three thematic sections: (1) "Business History and Practices in Japan" ("'Keiretsu,' Japan's Intercorporate Group Alliance: Will It Survive?" S. J. Chang); (2) "Anthropology and History of Japan" ("The Peopling of Early Japan," Don Quinn Kelley; "A Texan at the Meiji Court: Richard Bennet Hubbard's Embassy to Japan, 1885-1889," Andrew S. Szarka; and "Some Positive Aspects of the Japanese Colonial Period in Micronesia, 1914 to 1935," Dirk Anthony Ballendorf); (3) "Psychology, Education and Programs" ("Psychological Aspects of the Way of Tea," Sheila Fling; "Japanese Education Reinterpeted: Reexamining Japanese and American Educational Strategies in Light of Western Educational and Social Psychology," Cheryl E. Drout; "Think Polytechnic: Japan Studies at a Technical University," William S. Pfeiffer; and "Immersion in Multicultural America: A Language and Culture Program for Japanese University Students," Harold M. Murai, Garth Lewis, Kathy Windover). Contains two book reviews. (BT)