| Foreword | Moderate Food Intake/Oxygen Consumption Suppress Life Style-Related Diseases | Kiyomi Kikugawa | School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science |  |
| Reviews | Present Status in Development of New Useful Saccharides | Sumio Kitahata
Hirofumi Nakano
Hiromi Murakami | Osaka Municipal Technical Research Institute |  |
| Application of Malto-oligosaccharides in Polymer Chemistry | Atsushi Narumi
Toyoji Kakuchi | Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University |  |
| Purification of Useful Oil- and Fat-Related Compounds Using Lipase Reactions | Toshihiro Nagao
Yuji Shimada | Osaka Municipal Technical Research Institute |  |
| Bioactivities of Polysaccharides and Oligosaccharides in Edible Plants and Fungi | Kenichi Hatanaka | Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo |  |
| Improved Ethanol Tolerance and Fermentation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Alteration of Fatty Acid Content in Membrane Lipids via Metabolic Engineering | Susumu Kajiwara | Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology |  |
| i Protegemos las Plantas Utiles de Paises Andinos Centrales! | Socrates Shiota | Instituto de Agri-Cultura Andina y Amazonica |  |
| Get a Patent - From a View of Differences of National Patent Systems - | Setsuko Asami | Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University |  |
| Original Paper | Analytical Studies on Cannabis Sativa Varieties Introduced into Japan. Part II. Variations in Chemical Composition | I-Jung Lee a)
Mareshige Kohjouma a)
Osamu Iida a)
Yukiko Makino b)
Setsuko Sekita a)
Motoyoshi Satake c) | a) National Institute of Health Sciences
b) Kanto-Shin'etsu Regional Narcotic Control Office
c) Institute of Environmental Science for Human Life, Ochanomizu University |  |
| ArtTaste | History of the "Yakushoku-dogen" Concept | Tsuneo Namba | Professor Emeritus of Toyama and Pharmaceutical University |  |