| Foreword | Eating Raw Food as a Culture and Issues with Its Safety | Kenji Isshiki | Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University |  |
| Feature Articles: Enjoying Raw Food and Keeping Food Safety | Maintaining Palatability and Health Benefits of Raw Vegetables | Kazuko Oba a)
Atsumi Koide b) | a) College of bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University
b) Faculty of Human Life and Environmental Sciences, Nagoya Women's University |  |
| Microbial Safety of Fresh Produce | Shinichi Kawamoto | Food Safety Division, National Food Research Institute |  |
| Japanese Food Culture of Eating Raw Fish | Keiko Hatae | Wayo Women's University |  |
| Food Safety of Seafood Consumed Raw | Koji Yamazaki
Yuji Kawai
Kenji Isshiki | Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University |  |
| Reviews | Investigation of Functional Constituents of Plant Resources in Okinawa | Toshiya Masuda | Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, University of Tokushima |  |
| Development of a Measurement Method for the Swallowing Motion | Hirotaka Kaneda a)
Hidetoshi Kojima b)
Junji Watari b)
Yasuo Nakamura c)
Toyohiko Hayashi c) | a) Business Strategy Department, Corporate Strategy Division, Sapporo Breweries Ltd.
b) Frontier Laboratories of Value Creation, Sapporo Breweries Ltd.
c) Department of Biocybernetics, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University |  |
| Malignant Tumors of Experimental Rodents, and Comparison with Their Human Counterparts | Takamitsu Tsukahara a)
Keizo Nakayama a, b) | a) Kyoto Institute of Nutrition & Pathology
b) Japan Cytology Research |  |
| Quantitative Analysis of Histochemical Information from Intestinal Specimens | Satoshi Ishizuka | Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University |  |
| Blessing of Inca (VI): Palm Trees and Wild Fruits in the Upper Amazon Region | Jun Takano | - |  |
| ArtTaste | Modern Human's Grand Journey, from East Africa to the Southernmost End of the Americas (II)
-Their Diets in the Arctic Area- | Toshio Mitsunaga
Kenjiro Kinugawa | Professor Emeritus of Kinki University |  |