Introduction / M. Shimura
1. Melville in Japan: reception among writers and critics / K. Ohashi
2. The literary interaction between Hawthorne and Melville after Moby-Dick / G. Sugiura
3. A bird in an out-of-joint time: Captain Abah in Moby-Dick / A. Makino
4. Moby-Dick as a mosaic / T. Yagi
5. Melville's "Transcendentalism" in the context of his time / M. Sakamoto
6. Israel Potter and its ideological contamination / K. Fukuoka
7. A sweet charity for Melville the confidence man / K. Beppu
8. The imagination of death: an essay on Clarel / S. Suyama
9. Beyond "the Talismanic Secret": some aspects of Melville's later poetry / K. Murakami
10. Dymanism in Billy Budd / K. Tsubaki
11. Japanese scholarship on Herman Melville: A bibliographical essay / M. Tsunematsu.
