■ Foreword

Financial Support under the Basic Policy for Promoting Science & Technology

Tatsuo Suganuma

■ Feature Articles: Towards a thorough Investigation of Material Science by Electron Holography

Introduction

Ken Harada

Dopant Profiling of Semiconductor Devices by Electron Holography

Tsukasa Hirayama

Electron Holographic Characterization of Nano-Hetero Catalysts

Satoshi Ichikawa

Observation of Inner Potential Distribution at Interfaces between Metal and Oxide Ion-Conductor

Takayoshi Tanji

Magnetization Dynamics under Spin Current

Yoshihiko Togawa, Takashi Kimura, Ken Harada, Tetsuya Akashi, Akira Tonomura and Yoshichika Otani

Magnetic Phase Transition and Microstructure in Manganite—Direct Observations by Electron Holography and Lorentz Microscopy—

Yasukazu Murakami, Hiroto Kasai, Joong Jung Kim, Shuichi Mamishin, Daisuke Shindo, Shigeo Mori and Akira Tonomura

■ Reviews

In-Situ Observation of Micro-Structural Changes by EBSD

Seiichi Suzuki

Watching Single Molecule under Optical Microscopes

Takayuki Nishizaka and Tomoko Masaike

■ Lectures

Fundamentals and Practice of Electropolishing

Hiroyasu Saka

Color Universal Design—How to Make Figures of Fluorescent Staining

Masataka Okabe

■ Researches Today

New Insights into Studying Tight Junctions

Tetsuichiro Inai

Delta Type Spherical Aberration Corrector

Hidetaka Sawada, Takeo Sasaki, Shuuichi Yuasa, Mitsuhisa Terao, Muneyuki Kawazoe, Tomohiro Nakamichi, Fumio Hosokawa, Toshikatsu Kaneyama, Yukihito Kondo, Koji Kimoto and Kazutomo Suenaga

Application of a Newly Developed Real-Time 3D Scanning Electron Microscope to the Biomedical Research

Tatsuo Ushiki, Sukehiro Ito, Hiroshi Ito, Futoshi Iwata and Daisuke Koga

■ Conference Reports

The 66th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Microscopy

Kuniaki Nagayama, Nobuo Tanaka and Jiro Usukura

■ Staff Commentary

Ken Harada