Presidential Address

Challenges in the Research Fields of Regional Finance

Yoshiro Tsutsui

Survey Paper

Long-term Lending Relationship

Katsutoshi Shimizu and Nobuyoshi Yamori

Articles

Consolidation of Cooperative Banks (Shinkin) in Japan	Koji Sakai, Kotaro Tsuru and Kaoru Hosono
Banking Sector and Regional Economic Growth	Chisako Yamane and Yoshiro Tsutsui

short papers

Corporate Governance of Japanese Regional Banks	Kei Tomimura
Consumer Finance and Business Lending	Kazuhisa Kudo

Book Reviews

Fujiwara, H. (Shimizu,Y.) Watanabe, T. and I. Uesugi (Masuda, Y.) Okabe, M. (Yonezawa, Y.) Yamagami, H. (Ogawa, E.) Kumakura, S. (Tatebe, M.) Yamaguchi, H. (Kiyota, T.) Recent Textbooks in Monetary Economics (Sakuragawa, M.)