Special Lectures

Some Thoughts on Monetary Policy in Japan	Ben S. Bernanke
Challenges for Monetary Policy in Japan	Toshihiko Fukui
Structural Reforms and Monetary Policy	Koichi Hamada

Articles

Stock Market Reaction to Consolidation of Japanese Large Banks	Takeshi Kobayashi
The Analysis of Monetary Policy by the Bank of Japan	Takayasu Ito
The MAN-EN Recoinage Fiscal Policy in the Last Days Tokugawa Shogunate	Hiroki Suga
Predicting Japanese Real Economic Activity Using the Yield Spread	Hidehiro Ikeno
How the Japanese Yen Affects Dollar Peg in East Asian Currencies?	Junko Shimizu
The MOF’s Bank Examination System in Japan	Eiji Hotori

Book Reviews

Yabushita, S. (Takeda, Y.) Hoshi, T. and H. Patrick (Okabe, M.) Horie, Y. (Noma, T.) Osano, H. (Odagiri, H.) Ishii, K. and K. Sugiyama (Hotori, E.)