Index Original Articles Possibility and Problems when Making “the Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives” into Digital Archives Makoto GOTO 2-15 A Case Study of Pupils’-Assessment Ability’s Transfiguration Makoto HIROSE 16-31 The Strategy of Public Art: a Case Study of Sound Art Shin NAKAGAWA 32-45 Note The Management, Administration and Tasks of Convention Centers in Japan: The Osaka International Convention Center as an Example Keum-hyang KIM 46-59 International Trade Network Surrounding the Ancient City of Naniwa Towao SAKAEHARA 60-71 A Study of Childcare Patterns of Chinese Families in Japan: Through a Case Study of a Chinese Family Living in Kansai Yang ZHENG 72-87 Special Articles Ishibashi Soundscape: Investigating the Soundscape of Urban Japan Jacob KREUTZFELD 88-99 Book Review On Reading Social Cohesion in Early Modern Cities of East Asia? the Forms of Various Ranks and Classes by Inoue Toru and Tsukada Takashi? Was There a Difference in ‘Social Mobility’? Kohei WAKIMURA 100-109 News 110-122 Editorial 123 Contributors 124