Part 1 Historical geography: early British and Japanese atlases; origins of Japanese geography. Part 2 Contemporary economic geography: head office location; communications; trends in economic geography; rural depopulation; employment fluctuations. Part 3 Urban geography: community participation; budget process. Part 4 Theoretical and physical geography; fractals and central place theory; British and Japanese drainage basins. Part 5 Regional geography: consumption of space; South Asian studies; Damascus.