This discussion of universe-scope relations in Chinese and Japanese provides a contrastive analysis of certain features in the two languages. A striking similarity in the deep structure of the noun phrase in both languages is noted and discussed in detail. Both languages have two constituents in a noun phrase which have a semantic relationship called universe-scope and two mutually exclusive categories called totality-scope and partitive-scope. The two languages share the same set of Categorial Rules (at least for deriving sentences presented in this paper) and need different rules only in their lexical and transformational rules. The detailed discussion includes many examples in both languages. (Author/VM)