The purpose of this study was to longitudinally examine the development of anticipatory visual search and to find out the effects of preceding experiences upon the search during the second year of life. The sample consisted of 18 Japanese firstborn nonretarded children from middle-class families who were individually tested at 11, 12, 14, 16, 22, and 24 months. At each test session, each subject received 2 trials at a task in which an object disappeared at a tunnel entrance and reappeared at an exit. The child's visual fixation toward the object and the entrance, the exit, and other zones of the tunnel was measured and the entire procedure was videotaped. Visual search during occlusion of the object was assigned to five levels of anticipation. Findings indicated a developmental sequence from level I to level III and a transition period of 14 months. Within level III, change occurred from level III-1 to level III-3 across a period of 22 months. Level II and level III-2 were regarded as transitional levels despite their limted emergence due to the decrement of their occurrence at later months. Such development was interpreted as the reflection of the process of coordination between spatial and temporal information in object permanence. (RH)