March 2002 Volume 37 Number 4

The Opening Ceremony of the Department of Human Welfare:

Takeshi SHINODA: Address to the Opening Ceremony of the Department
   of Human Welfare 

Naoshi SANADA: The Future of Social Welfare in Japan and the Role of the Department
   of Human Welfare

Articles:
Takashi YAMAMOTO  Empirical Study on the Long-Term Care Insurance Scheme and Social
    Administration: A Two Years' Review on the Long-Term Care Insurance Scheme
Takeshi WADA  Electrification of Stock Farmers' Houses by Introducing Small
    Wind Turbines and/or Photovoltaic Systems in Inner-Mongolia of China
Osamu HASUDA and LIM Bon  A Study on the Improvement of Living Conditions
    in the “Dowa” District: The Role of the Movement for the Preservation     
    of the Bank of Yanagihara
Ignacio ARISTIMUÑO  The Cognition of Landscape as a Tool for Rural-Urban
    Planning in Japan  

Shioto FUKUCHI  Towards the Revival of Associationalism:
    Critical Analysis of Hirst's Interpretation of G.D.H. Cole's Social Theory

Kyo MATSUSHIMA  Care and Violence in the Family
Lluis VALLS  Association and Political Change in the Japanese Bio-Industry
Tomonobu KANGYO  Postwar Revival, Reconstruction of the Nation-state
    and the National Athletic Meet: About Aichi-kokutai in 1950
Koji YOSHIDA  Problems with P.L. Berger's “The Social Construction of Reality”
    and Possible Ways to Regenerate It
Sang-jea LEE  A Study of Elder Abuse in Social Welfare Facilities:
    Focusing on Staff Assignment Standards

Workshop:

Takeshi SHINODAO  OpeningAddress  
Civil Society and Public Sphere under the Globalization:  
(Report1) Chantal MOFFE: For an Agonistic Public Sphere
(Report2) Bob JESSOP: Approaches to Analysis of Civil Society and the State
(Report3) Takeo ITO: Pluralities of Civil Society in Japan
Discussion