■ Foreword

The Leading Actor and Subordinate Actors in TEM

Yoshitsugu Tomokiyo

■ In Memoriam

In Memory of Prof. Harunori Ishikawa

Hiroshi Yorifuji

■ Feature Articles: Application of High Voltage Electron Microscopy for Biomedical Science

The Basis and Application for the Observation of Biological Materials with High Voltage Electron Microscopy

Hitoshi Ozawa

Observation of Cell Organelles with HVEM

Toru Noda

High Voltage Electron Microscopy for Three-Dimensional Structure of Neuron and Glia in the Olfactory Bulb

Kazunori Toida, Emi Kiyokage and Tatsuo Arii

Utilization of High Voltage Electron Microscopy (HVEM) in Histopathology — 3 Dimensional Analysis by Electron Tomography

Hiroyuki Ito

Structure Analysis of Human Hair Fiber with High Voltage Electron Microscopy (HVEM)

Kenzo Koike, Akira Mamada, Shinobu Nagase, Osamu Yoshida and Akio Takaoka

■ Reviews

Electron Microscopic Contribution for Diagnosis of Brain Tumor Pathology

Keiji Kawamoto, Tetsuya Oishi, Hideyuki Oshige, Takuya Kawaguchi, Toshitaka Seno, Yunbo Zhen, Yi Li and Xinbing Long

Label-free Molecular Imaging of Living Cells

Katsumasa Fujita

■ Lectures

Spatial Pattern Analysis of the Functional Organization of the Brain

Shozo Jinno

Principles of High Resolution STEM Images (II)

Takashi Yamazaki and Kazuto Watanabe

The Morphological Analysis of the Golgi Apparatus by Scanning Electron Microscopy

Daisuke Koga and Tatsuo Ushiki

■ Researches Today

Observation of Charge Trapping Site within High-k Thin Films by Scanning Capacitance Microscopy

Yuichi Naitou, Atsushi Ando, Hisato Ogiso, Satoshi Kamiyama, Yasuo Nara, Kiyoshi Yasutake and Heiji Watanabe

Positron Microscopy

Masanori Fujinami

Synaptic Organization of Cerebellar Purkinje Cell

Ryoichi Ichikawa, Takafumi Ninomiya, Haruyuki Tatsumi and Masahiko Watanabe

Multi-cellular Kinetics and Tissue Remodeling Visualized by in vivo Molecular Imaging

Satoshi Nishimura

■ Conference Reports

Report on Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008

Kazuto Arakawa

Report on EMC2008 in Aachen

Hiroki Kurata

■ Staff Commentary

Hitoshi Ozawa