| YOSHIMOTO Michimasa | Foreword | 
  | Articles: |  | 
| ISHIMURA Tomo | The Origin of the Lapita Peoples and the Dispersal of Austronesian Peoples | 
| YAMAZAKI Takeshi | Assimilation and Alienation: The Yao-Zhuang 猺獞 of Guangxi Province during the Ming Period and the Cen 岑 Family the Chieftain Official | 
  | HORIUCHI Takayuki | South African Coloured Identity | 
  | SAKAI Kazuomi | The Influence of Democracy on the Japanese Diplomatic Theories in the 1920s: The Case of 'National Diplomacy' | 
  | KUROIWA Yasuhiro | Miyatake Masamichi, 'A Dilettante Linguist': The Life of a Highbrow in Imperial Japan | 
  | ZENNO Miho | The Nativos of the Former Indigenous Villages in Mexico City in Relation to the Definition of "Indigenous People" | 
  | Academic Trends:: |  | 
| IWAO Kazushi | Current Research Trends on the Testament of Ba | 
  | Book Reviews: |  | 
  | TAKEMORI Tomoko | NAGAYAMA Syuichi, The Hayato and Ancient Japan | 
  | TAKADA Ryota | S.A.Epstein, Purity Last: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400 | 
| YAMAGUCHI Ikuto | KITAGAWA Katsuhiko (ed.), Decolonization and the British Empire | 
| Miscellaneous: |  |