Vol. 74, No. 6 | Subject | Title: Subtitle | Writer | Page | Special Lecture | The road to the Industrial Revolution: hypotheses and conjectures about the mediaeval origins of the 'European Miracle' | Jan Luiten VAN ZANDEN | 3 | Article | Transactions among Japanese sake brewers in prewar Nada | Tomotaka OSHIMA | 25 | Article | On the background of the development of semiconductor technology in Japan: the role of collaborative research | Hiroshi AOKI | 49 | |