| Foreword | Regulation and Utilization of Medicinal Plants | Motoyoshi Satake | Japan Pharmacist Education Center |  |
| Reviews and Article | Effect of Orchard Practices on Fruit Taste and Aroma Constituents | Goro Okamoto
Huijuan Jia | Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University |  |
| A Place Dear to Japanese Heart: Tea and Its Uses | Masashi Omori | Department of Food Science, Faculty of Home Economics, Otsuma Womenfs University |  |
| Development of Microcapsules and Applications in the Food Industry | Masato Tanaka | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University |  |
| Oxidation Processes of Encapsulates Lipids | Shuji Adachi | Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University |  |
| Anthocyanins Isolated from Purple Corn (Zea mays L.) | Hiromitsu Aoki
Noriko Kuze
Yoshiaki Kato | San-Ei Gen F.F.I., Inc. |  |
| i Protegemos las Plantas Utiles de Paises Andinos Centrales! | Socrates Shiota | Instituto de Agri-Cultura Andina y Amazonica |  |
| Art Taste | A Cultural History Concerning Natural Materials - a Study from the Aspect of Drugs | Kaisuke Yoneda | Osaka University |  |