■Foreword

Science Came Out of Microscopy

Kunio Takayanagi

■In Memoriam

In Memory of Prof. Michio Hibino

Hiroshi Shimoyama

■Feature Articles: Cutting Edge Live Imaging Analysis of Cellular Migrations during Development

“Let’s Follow and Understand the Cellular Movements as Cells Do”: A Paradigm Shift in Developmental Biology by Live Imaging Analysis

Yoichi Kosodo

Time-Lapse Imaging Analysis of Blood Vessels in Transgenic Quail Embryo

Yuki Sato

Elongation of Sperm Promoted by Giant Mitochondria in Drosophila

Tatsuhiko Noguchi

Interkinetic Nuclear Migration of Neural Progenitor Cells: Understanding Cellular Migration in Tissue Based on Live Imaging and Modeling

Yoichi Kosodo

Information Technology for Quantitative Bio-Image Analysis

Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

■Reviews

Protein Translation Mechanism Revealed by Next-Generation Single Molecule Technology

Sotaro Uemura

Study of Annular Bright-Field STEM Imaging Based on Reciprocity

Eiji Abe and Ryo Ishikawa

■Lectures

A Promising Biomaterial for Periodontal Regenerative Therapy: Characteristics of the Cultured Human Periosteal Sheet

Tomoyuki Kawase, Kazuhiro Okuda and Hiromasa Yoshie

The Construction of Foundation in Cell Adhesion to Recent Implant Fixture Surfaces Using Modified Nanostructure: An Approach with Various Microscopes

Makoto Umeda and Yoichiro Taguchi

Observation of Anisotropy of Electronic Structures by Using Anisotropy of Inelastic Scattering Accompanied by Inner-Shell Excitation

Koh Saitoh

■Researches Today

The Technologies and the Applications of Super Resolution Microscopy

Yoshiro Oikawa

Development of a Positron Probe Microanalyzer for Analysis of Atomic Vacancy Distributions

Nagayasu Oshima and Ryoichi Suzuki

■JEM to become MICROSCOPY

Yoshio Bando

■Conference Reports

The EMC2012 Conference Report

Kenji Kaneko

Report on Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012

Tadahiro Kawasaki

■Staff Commentary

Kei-ichiro Nakamura