This collection of the 1990 issues of the Japanese-language journal "The Science of Reading" presents 23 articles (research reports and "personal views of reading") on a variety of questions dealing with reading. The articles in the collection all have summaries in English. Articles in the April issue are "The Effects of Oral Story-Telling and Reading Stories to Children" (A. Iihoshi); "Reading Guidance using Audio-Visual Aids" (Y. Ochiai); "The Effects of Explicitness Levels of an Actor's Goal on Context Formation between Sentences--The Linguistic versus Nonlinguistic Contexts" (Y. Sato); "Reading Instruction of Expository Texts--Reading for Information" (M. Akano); "Comprehension of Randomly Arranged Expository Texts" (M. Iwanaga); and "Teaching the Story 'Yamanashi' with a Focus on Its Slide-Projector-Like Effects--Involving the Reader in the Dialogue" (J. Kamitani). Articles in the July issue are "Reading Guidance in the Social Studies Curriculum" (T. Matsumoto); "Reading Instruction Carried Out as a Junior High School Teacher" (Y. Kaneko); "What Does the Matching Familiar Figures Test Measure?" (S. Ikeda); and "The Effect of Graphic Properties of 'Pictorial Letters' in Japanese Comic Books" (T. Miyamoto). Articles in the October issue are "Reading and Japanese Language Skills" (T. Sadakane); "Improving Reading Guidance" (I. Tajima); "The Effects of Presentation Style Using Sentences and Pictures on Kindergarten Children's Memory of a Story" (Y. Tamase); "Student-Oriented Reading Instruction" (H. Tandoh); "Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Instruction" (Y. Tsukada); and "A Critical Review of the Major Theories Stressing the Writer Factor When Teaching the Reading of Expository Texts" (M. Terai). Articles in the December issue are "Reading Guidance in the Information Age" (T. Segawa); "The Importance of Group Reading" (Y. Yamada); "The Effect of Different Illustrations on Understanding the Theme of Folktale 'The Great Big Enormous Turnip'" (T. Iwasaki and others); "Knowledge of Blind Children's Responses When Using 'Read-by-Touch' Picture Books and Its Effects on Attitude Changes toward the Visually Handicapped" (K. Tokuda); "Impressions of Comic Strips and Comic Strip Heroes--A Multidimensional Scaling of Comic Strip Perceptions" (Y. Oshiro and M. Fukuhara); "An Examination of Iser's 'Act of Reading' as a Fundamental Theory of Teaching Literature" (A. Nakamura); and "Reading Skills Instruction in the Japanese Language" (T. Sadakane). (RS)