Getting Started: Washington and Asia [announcement]

Speaker: James Fallows

Waiting for a Written Invitation? [call for Newsletter contributions]

Happy New Year [announcement: New Year party]

Rewriting with the Pros (SS) [workshop report]

Leaders: Anne Blasing, Laurie Berman, Jiho Sargent, Doreen Simmons

Uneclipsed Summer Party (LER) [report]

Better Than Shopping Bags (FMU) [review]

Book: Japan Inc.: An Introduction to Japanese Economics (The Comic Book)

How to List (ref: CC) (ST) [format guidelines for lists]

A Monk by Any Other Name... (JS) [Japanese Buddhism terms]

A "Little Magazine" from Shitamachi [review]

Periodical: Yanesen

Hardware Info Exchange (DP)

Product: Epson V-800 dot matrix printer

Ask the Publishing Hexpert [finding a publisher]

Greener Pastures? (MS) [advice on coming to Japan to work]

Bibliotheca Nipponica: Scaling the Ivy Walls [Tokyo-area libraries]

Sophia University (Jôchi) and International Christian University; Keio University

Collectible Retirement Benefits (LER) [applying for Japanese benefits]

Over Their Shoulders [rewriting comparisons: introduction to annual report]

Rewriters: Jim Keating, Malcolm Sullivan

Credit Where It's Due [contributors to this issue]

One Scientist's Definitions [humorous definitions of typist and editor]