| Contents |
| 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 |
