| Foreword | Takao Murayama | 3 |
| New period of children's literature -1945-1960 | Teruo Jinguh | 6 |
| Picture books in the 15-Year War period - my choices | Shin'ichi Yoshida | 26 |
| Tracing the line of Japanese literary fairly tales (Dowa) | Takeo Miyakawa | 46 |
| “Collapse of taboo” and young adult literature | Naoto Ishii | 66 |
| Four female writers of Japanese new fantasy -Centering on Fuyumi Ono | Akemi Itsuji | 86 |
| Changes in children's popular literature | Motoko Sato | 108 |
| Introduction of books on general history of Japanese children's literature | Yuri Chiyo | 130 |
| Crepe-paper books (Chirimen-bon) from the ILCL collections | Maki Eguchi | 143 |
| How to use the Union Catalog Database of Children's Literature | Kazushige Watanabe | 154 |
