This annual report presents several articles related to the work of the Clinical Center for Child Development at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The articles are: (1) "The Functional Uses of Infant-Directed Speech of Fathers and Mothers: A Comparison Study" (Katsuko Niwano); (2) "Are Children 'Among the Gods'?: Parental Images of Children and Childrearing in Japan and the U.S." (David W. Shwalb, Shing-Jen Chen, Russell P. MacKay, and Brett A. Wilkey); (3) "Mastery as Sources and Results of Appropriation: A Coincidental Relation" (Nobumoto Tajima, Kayoko Uemura, Koichi Yamazaki, Yoshinori Wakao, and Miyako Kamei); (4) "Voices of TV Commercials as the Reflection of Cultural Mentality: A Japan-U.S. Comparison" (Nobumoto Tajima and Kojiro Asao); and (5) "Comparison of Evaluations on Behavioral Performance of Institutionalized Children by Their Primary Caregivers and School Teachers with Special Reference to Reactive Attachment Disorder" (Fumimoto Tadano, Soichiro Kawagoe, and Tsuyoshi Tatsuzawa). (HTH)