June 2017 Volume 53 Number 1 In Honor of the Retirement of Professors :AKAI Shoji, ISHIKURA Yasuji, OGAWA Eiji, KARAKAMA Naoyoshi and SAKAMOTO Toshiko Foreword: TAKEUCHI Yoshiaki Our Appriciation of Professors : AKAI Shoji, ISHIKURA Yasuji, OGAWA Eiji, KARAKAMA Naoyoshi, SAKAMOTO Toshiko Commemorating the Retirement of Professor AKAI Shoji: AKAI Shoji Professor AKAI Shoji : A Selected Bibliography and a Short History of His Major Scholarly Activities OZAWA Wataru Seeking High Quality Active Learning IKEDA Tomoka Worries about One’s Self and Family in an Advice Column: Analyzing the “Jinsei Annai” Advice Column in the Yomiuri Shimbun Commemorating the Retirement of Professor ISHIKURA Yasuji: ISHIKURA Yasuji The Solution Process of Buraku Problem and a Welfare Study Professor ISHIKURA Yasuji : A Selected Bibliography and a Short History of His Major Scholarly Activities Commemorating the Retirement of Professor OGAWA Eiji: OGAWA Eiji Public Assistance,Welfare Office and Social Case Work : Transformation after the 1970s and My Experiences Professor OGAWA Eiji: A Selected Bibliography and a Short History of His Major Scholarly Activities Commemorating the Retirement of Professor KARAKAMA Naoyoshi: KARAKAMA Naoyoshi What I Learned from Eiichi Eguchi's Method of Social Study Professor KARAKAMA Naoyoshi : A Selected Bibliography and a Short History of His Major Scholarly Activities Commemorating the Retirement of Professor SAKAMOTO Toshiko: SAKAMOTO Toshiko My teaching and research: International education, intercultural collaborative education and African studies through literature Professor SAKAMOTO Toshiko : A Selected Bibliography and a Short History of Her Major Scholarly Activities Articles: YOSHIDA Makoto A Surge of Struggle for Conversion from “Rinjiko” to “Honko”at Nissan in 1952 and Thereafter HIGUCHI Koichi A Two-Step Approach to Quantitative Content Analysis :KH Coder Tutorial Using Anne of Green Gables (Part II) KIDA Akio Critical Realism and Retroduction/Retrodiction : With the Complex Determination and the View of Multi-Linear FUKAGAWA Koyo Participation in Community Activities from Characteristics of Child-Rearing Generation and Possibilities of Bearers: Considerations from Questionnaire Survey for the Purpose of Continuity of Mano Community Development