| Stephen G. Covell | 
The Temple/Juridical Person: Law and the Temple in Japan | 
| Michael R. Auslin | 
The International Politics of Japanese Tariff Revision, 1862-66: Reassessing Bakumatsu Foreign Policy | 
| M. William Steele | 
The History of the Tama River: Water and Rocks in Modern Japanese Economic Growth | 
| Yinghong Li | 
Psychological Disintegration: Nihilist Self-Destrucion in Can Xue's Fiction | 
| Wakita Haruko | 
Japanische Stadtgemeinden und Rituale in Mittelalter: Von Diestleuten zu Stadtern (Ubersetzung von Iwakura Yoriko und Adrian Gerber) |