This quantity is a variety of essays from the Japanese-American Joint Seminar on Phenomenology held within the suburbs of Sanda-city (Japan) October 24-27, 1989, lower than the auspices of the heart for complex examine in Phenomenology, Inc. Florida Atiantic collage and the Phenomenological organization of Japan. Professor Eiichi Shimomisse performed a very impartant position within the organizational strategies. The subject of the convention used to be "Japanese and Western Phenomenology. " This seminar marks the 1st try and arrange, on a relatively huge scale, a cooperative study assembly in phenomenology (perhaps for the 1st time even in philosophy ordinarily) among Japan and the English talking West. Eighteen phenomenologists from the USA, Canada, and Australia and approximately thirty eastern colleagues attended the assembly. Revised vers ions of aimost all of the papers that have been learn and mentioned within the periods are inc1uded. It used to be no longer a mere affair to setHe upon what language we phenome nologists from the world over might use to speak with one another at this convention. As a number of the eastern students had studied in Germany and converse larger German than English, the authentic language of the seminar was once outlined to inc1ude either German and English. So me of the papers, for that reason, have been written and skim in German. yet now they're all rewritten right here in English. not just those papers, yet aH the manuscripts written by means of jap authors have been edited either grammaticaHy and stylisticaHy via Professor Blosser.